Tuesday 15 September 2009

45. Icy Ritter

Bed nook | of pine | thicket,
Branches | crinkled | o’erhead
As roof | and sides | best bed

Chambers | the high | mountains
Afford | snug squi | rrel-nests,
Venti | lated, | spicy

Odor, | wind-played | needles
Sing for | company | y, six
Nestle | among | tassels.

Night-wind | began | to blow
Gentle | breathing, | increase
Toward | midnight | to gale.

15/ix/9 – Fremont

59. A Near View of the High Sierra

Fell up | on leaf | y roof
In rag | ged surg | es like
Cascade, | bearing | wild sounds

From crag | & wat | erfall
Chorus | filling | old ice-
Fountain | with sol | emn roar,

Seeming | increase | as night
Advanced | voice fit | landscape.
Crept to | fire in | night, t’were

Bitten | cold sans | blankets.
Gladly | I welcome | d the
Morning | stars; cont | inents.

15/ix/9 – Fremont

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