IN THE SKY

EXCERPTS from "FLAME and SHADOW VII"

                                 by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

A diamond of a morning. Dawn had taken in the stars

And left the moon. 

O white moon, you are lonely.

A fog drifts in, the heavy laden cold white ghost of the sea

With the whole world gone blind,

At six o'clock of an autumn dusk

With the sky in the west a rusty red

The first star pricks as sharp as steel

Bells clang in the valley, wearily tolled.

And now in this wide twilight hour

With earth and heaven a dark, blue flower

In a humble mood I bless

Your wisdom...….

I live on a hill against the sky

And look on mountains and the sea

And a thin white moon in the pepper tree...………..

Excerpts from Sara Teasdale "Flame and Shadow" 1920 Collection. (Beautiful reading)

Photographs 2020