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Stippling, Winter: Letter to a Tropical Mind
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Indiana Review
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July 1, 2008
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Long grasses gone
to palomino and an atmospheric tightening. Days grown
short. As if to diminish,
to turn away can be nourish. Then perhaps not tightening,
but slackened time, as
the appaloosa standing in this first snow, spot on spot and light
and dark and circle within
circle, relaxes entirely toward what I'd say was going to be
a colder time and dark, but
you are dressing all my words in your memories of them,
so how to explain? There is
the half-dappled horse and these white discs whirring so
slowly it seems gravity's turned
down, is off somewhere, looking at rooftops, wistful
and a little bit 180Os.
That century, sepia, as we've read about it, or uncolored
photographs we've seen.
Maybe ...