Grey on grey

—By Knulclunk

—By Knulclunk

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‘‘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.

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