Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CRISS-CROSS PATTERN, by ETHEL BRODT WILSON



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CRISS-CROSS PATTERN, by                    
First Line: The birds stitch / back and forth
Last Line: Upon the mountain.
Subject(s): Birds


The birds stitch
Back and forth
A criss-cross pattern
Until the sky is a maze
Of threads of flight.

Across the sky
From tree to tree
And earth to sky
And tree again,
With now and then
To hold, a stitch
Upon the hillside,
Or, over the orchard
A thread they fasten
In a high tree
Upon the mountain.





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