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THE HEMLOCK GROVE
- The Yale Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 104, Number 1, January 2016
- p. 56
- 10.1353/tyr.2016.0112
- Article
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5 6 Y T H E H E M L O C K G R O V E M A U R A S T A N T O N after Charles Burchfield’s watercolor Ghost haze floats across the grove in tatters Transforming trees, obscuring as it scatters. Leaves scuttle. Snags are alive with eyes, The loose bark itchy with wintering flies. The damp ground smolders under sprays of twigs. Mist crowns the tree tops like powdered wigs. Living and dead trees enduring, weathering – Here fog shapes wings, a neck, a feathering Out of nothing, out of the paper’s ground, The nothingness the artist saved, not found As his wet brush conjured a vanished swan From two dead trunks. Today I saw a fawn Gnawing a pumpkin, and thought of Burchfield Striving to uncover what we want concealed. ...