https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/days-of-tired-gold-and-bitter-blue/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:09:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/days-of-tired-gold-and-bitter-blue/#comment-1727 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:09:28 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/20/a-guest-that-would-be-gone/#comment-1727 The Jeffers is really great, and I didn’t know it – “leprous grass”- I love it.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/days-of-tired-gold-and-bitter-blue/#comment-1726 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:53:08 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/20/a-guest-that-would-be-gone/#comment-1726 […] Yesterday afternoon, a dry high blew in. By late in the day, that end-of-summer mood I tried to evoke with quotes from favorite poems yesterday morning had given way to elation and a distinctly autumnal sky. After supper, I grabbed my camera and headed up over the ridge to the west, escaping the long shadows that already reached as far as the houses. The wind blew steadily, making the shadows dance as I poked along through an open forest of very old, gnarled chestnut oaks and black birches. The thin soil and open rocks of the Tuscarora Quartzite formation support little else, especially since the loggers of a hundred years ago took most of the white pines, almost all of the hemlock, and all chestnut oaks straight enough to serve as mine timbers. […]

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/days-of-tired-gold-and-bitter-blue/#comment-1725 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:59:12 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/20/a-guest-that-would-be-gone/#comment-1725 You betcha.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/days-of-tired-gold-and-bitter-blue/#comment-1724 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:22:25 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/08/20/a-guest-that-would-be-gone/#comment-1724 But in the basket of raked leaves,
A Black Sabbath LP.

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