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A chapter in the book Carolina Pastorals

February

by estory

Cold winter daylight brightened snow
Spread between shadows of the trees
Like the white pages of an old book
Holding secrets of the Earth.

There is no end to the trembling silence
In the empty branches of the trees.

And yet, one cardinal, like a red spark,
Leaps across the empty, white landscape
Carrying the flame from last year's candlestick
To pass on to the spring.



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This is the first piece in the new series I have been working on since last summer, a book that will be called Carolina Pastorals. I think this is a good example of what to expect; a more lyrical style, more pastoral romantic, revolving around imagery with a less dense musical element. Somewhat in the vein of Natural Light, so if you liked the poems in that book, you will probably like Carolina Pastorals. This one kind of speaks for itself, I think, a poem about the mysterious movement of change in the seasons of Earth, the idea of life carrying on from one season to the next, somehow. And our own experience being elevated along with it. estory
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