Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AFTER A CITY WINTER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG



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First Line: Hill tops are forms of silence
Last Line: And the blue curve of a wing.
Subject(s): Cities; Winter; Urban Life


Hill-tops are forms of silence,
And sunlight is like skin,
And every pine along the cliffs
Hushes what I have been,
And what I have known. And the quiet
Draws me to tingle and throb;
And a three-stemmed dogwood in blossom
Breaks from me like a sob.
There is nothing, and then still nothing
(Excepting everything)
And I vanish in many white sepals
And the blue curve of a wing.





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