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Farm Air and Poplar
Before the air be clearly cool,
In Georgia, Monticello, see,
Be one precursor of the rule,
That lower heat – humidity –
Be gaining ground and holding sway,
Embryonic, slight and small,
Be indicating potency,
In Autumn, on a sunny brae. (hill)
As Uncle Tom and I repaired
A barb wire fence, along the road,
A dry and cooling tuft of breeze,
It hit like snuff, enough to sneeze.
And in the field it’s good and soaked,
From sun and working hard as well,
And digging on an old post – oak,
Enables me to sense and tell,
What Gold on Poplar indicates,
As early as September states:
October and November fates,
Of cobalt skies, of long awaits,
Be on the way with golden leaf,
And holding sway, however brief.
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Photo by Hayden Geoffrey
Blue and Green
Crashing the arc of viridian green,
Cerulean blue be an ocean of sheen,
Green esprit heaving and lit from within,
Blue as the evening, and glinting the skin.
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Alec Ream is a writer living in Virginia. His poetic work and creative fiction have been widely published. A member of the Demosthenian Literary Society at UGA, he wrote on Lookout Mountain, and continued to write, lecture and work for Delta Kappa Epsilon HQ. He was first published reading to the pledge class of Michigan DKE, in Ann Arbor in 2008. Recently, his poem Green Fire was read at the Washington Literary Society & Debating Union at UVA.
Featured Image: “A Landscape With Cows On A Riverbank, A Farm Beyond” by Vester.