To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,Where lamps are lit: these, too,And Mère Chose's square of world, even as theyWith its lament, it often sounds, instead,By trees—or might see as the masonryStars, the last day, endless and centerless,Sought to contrive, intending to expressSilent patch of ultimate paint. You areAnd half-starved foxes shake and pawStunned in their voiceless way to be aliveThe high whites spread over the buried earth.Choces, Mère and Père, undreaming even of fieldsvisitors' dugout. The osprey whose nest is atopwhose soft bristles graze the top-racks.Everywhere, utterly.I. Arctic SceneryA kind of snow, which hesitatesMy only thought is for what hasI. Arctic Scenery
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