EMILY DICKINSON'S "IT SIFTS FROM LEADEN SIEVES" (1862) The mov't of snow and how it settles on the landscape......
It sifts from Leaden Sieves, it powders all the Wood.
It fills with Alabaster Wool the wrinkles of the road.
It makes an Even face of mountain, and of plain
Unbroken forehead from the east unto the east again
It reaches...........
to the Fence.
It wraps it rail by rail
Till it is lost in Fleeces
It deals Celestial Veil
To Stump, and Stack
and stem
A summer's empty room
Acres of Joints, where Harvests were,
Recordless, but for them
It ruffles wrists of posts
As ankles of a Queen
Then stills its artisans
Like Ghosts
Denying they have been...............
Photographs 2020
I love all your bird photos. They are so interesting and colorful. Thanks
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