0 By Degree

Mrs. had only red

to wear, but ran

the broken shore,

disconsolate,

the village through,

the rooted icicles

as steady sentinels

& barricades, &

wreathes aglow

the failed ribbons

& tattered bows —

disparate Polaris,

how is this true —

Oh, where are you?

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8 thoughts on “0 By Degree

  1. A modern avantgarde- poem. I liked the line bout the failed ribbons. Had to look in a dictíonary. But hard to understand the poem anyway…

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        1. Grammar you may play with, but, if I understand you correctly,
          the last line would read ‘where yellow leaves grow’…
          how you have written it is more puzzling.

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            1. I do not say mistake…it depends on your intended meaning
              for the third line, if yellow is also ‘cat’, leafs may be
              used as in ‘leafs’ (through a book, or thought, etc)…
              and there is where both grows and grow are puzzling…
              it is some other word entirely.

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    1. In my youth, the ground taught me humility, both in its wilderness
      and — I don’t want to say tamed — as a gardener therein, that
      friendship you come to cherish. Life everywhere, and never as demanding
      as human society. True to its own law. It shall survive without us.

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