#2414 -- the world is snow

 

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11.viii.26

the world is snow

ekphrastic for Józef Chelmónski’s 1868 ‘Four Horses in fron of a Cottage’

 

the village is winter

 

red skirt and scarf

the kind of joke you shouldn’t tell

 

better the shoes with the holes than none

 

horses tread the day to slush

 

bare trees and a smoke grey sky to bury

 

leaning into the breath you can see

 

dark of a doorway

and distance is dark

 

bells ring far for a doom

 

snow  is clean where no one goes

 

there is a further desolation

 

night is to fall on these faces

 

dogs leap for their joy