The arched trees flare against the early leaf.
Against the spent horizon, like a scrawl,
gold clouds have worked a naked bas-relief.
The smoke of raging fires casts a pall.
William Logan will have a volume of early selected poems out in the spring
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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 22 January 2004, on page 35
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