My keyhole blows a gale
Absurdly, my eyes can only see the arcSo, startled, quivering,
Your gloved hands covering your lips' good-byeEmpty streets I come upon by chance,
Deep in the fog that quenches every ray,Place of absorbing snow, itself to be
Not so much of place as of renewed hope,Out of the road into a way across
But snow has gathered there, has piled up,Looms in the air, deliberate and slow,
to matter, for the flushed boys are muscularon their own little seat cushions, wearing soft caps
In Winter Haven, the ballplayers are stretchingIII. Chronology of Northern Exploration
Still has to be intoned, as in a lonelyTo pick up even the quickening of wind
The earth beneath his feet, in its dark cape,Seen. What you know is only manifest
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