by Steve Dieffenbacher
Here, along the unused tracks,
noisy waxwings disperse
to rejoin in nearby willows.
Beside the muddy road
that frames a dry field
they shake their desolate branches.
On the slope beyond, November gleams,
meadows sheep in painters’ greens,
lightens the grim orchards.
Searching, the eye moves on,
marking a high-planked barn,
tree-fenced with yellow and copper leaf,
while higher still, the season blurs,
hills of oaks burnished dull gold,
too remote to define.
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