Terminology

This entry is part 58 of 91 in the series Toward Noon: 3verses

 

Earth tones—a term
no recent migrant from the tropics
would understand,

how a dormant earth
can come in moss-green, bark-gray
and a thousand browns—

umber, ochre, sienna—
and spring still a hollow gurgling
somewhere below.

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