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LOLA RIDGE: After storm

Lola Ridge
(1873-1941)

 

AFTER STORM

  Was there a wind?
  Tap… tap…
  Night pads upon the snow
  with moccasined feet…
  and it is still… so still…
  an eagle’s feather
  might fall like a stone.
  Could there have been a storm…
  mad-tossing golden mane on the neck of the wind…
  tearing up the sky…
  loose-flapping like a tent
  about the ice-capped stars?

  Cool, sheer and motionless
  the frosted pines
  are jeweled with a million flaming points
  that fling their beauty up in long white sheaves
  till they catch hands with stars.
  Could there have been a wind
  that haled them by the hair….
  and blinding
  blue-forked
  flowers of the lightning
  in their leaves?
  Tap… tap…
  slow-ticking centuries…
  Soft as bare feet upon the snow…
  faint… lulling as heard rain
  upon heaped leaves….
  Silence
  builds her wall
  about a dream impaled.

 

LOLA RIDGE POETRY
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