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PoemsThick fog has filled the canyon overnight And turned it to a sea of milky gray. The steep-sloped chaparral and streets below Are drowned from view; hilltops across the way Form a low-lying archipelago Upon the fogs smothering gulfs and shoals. The scene, in the uncertain pre-dawn light, Recalls those Chinese landscapes on silk scrolls
In which mists haunt ravines, and clouds surround
Yet soon this worlds specifics will revive This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 23 April 2005, on page 25 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/daybreak-benedict-canyon-1301
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