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MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT

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.



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