Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poet's Biography First Line: What heather is parading along the park in a Last Line: Underbrush. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Death; Nature; Seasons; Winter; Dead, The | ||||||||
WHAT heather is parading along the park in a mist with leather yellow that is fading, mingling with amethyst? Tips of branches! Trees in winter! As I stumble, plunder, crush through the nimble leaves I wonder why it is ever said the trees are dead I can never take it in. The trees are wading naked in translucent waves of underbrush. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND AVE EVA by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT BOSTON IN SUMMER, WITH A CONFESSION by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT |
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