Reflected light reflected again on snow but beauty is lonely lonely The snowsurface is hard gleaming vitrescent blue without crest or crevice extending beyond anywhere for long ago the horizon crumbled in an indeterminate glow and the night has stillness Light that is fragile paleolithic white from this fossilshell embedded in a sky of shale conveys a snowgleaming track for the solitary on and on a trail of his sole desperation climbing the world of pure beauty Remote and high a real light shimmers an upland farmstead shining or only a star in the unhorizoned sky. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GUARDIAN OF THE RED DISK (SPOKEN BY A CITIZEN OF MALTA - 1300) by EMMA LAZARUS SLEEP by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH BABY'S SHOES by WILLIAM COX BENNETT MOTHER O' MINE by RUDYARD KIPLING STANZAS: IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SHE IS SO PRETTY by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 27 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |