Grey on grey
‘‘half-past nine and warm enough
to nudge a crocus out of its benumbing
winter sleep, grey swales of greysplotched
grey on grey, erratic windswept drizzle,
the swish swash of milk- and oil trucks slashed
across my trenchsliht vision when….’’
— From “A Break in the Weather,’’ by Paul Mariani (born 1940), poet and long-time literature professor at Boston College. He lives in western Massachusetts.