Grey In One Line

Looking over the pale fields
and old woods, I recognise
                   this can not be
                   the consequence of birth,

more a late push under winter mud,
as if I am as thin as cardboard,
                   one of no depth,
                   desolate as sleet.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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