A Slant Light

‘tho she’s rye n’

in a sundress

& her shawl is

knotted moonlight

in the shedding

of the cords

she wearies of,

when a sample

shall or as

a wick attend

the mending of

a silence bent

more the hearth,

the wind runs

through a slant

light fallen

sudden to

the flintlock

on the floor,

she wouldn’t ‘tho

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