DAWN, WINOOSKI RIVER ( painting and poem)

DAWN, WINOOSKI RIVER - painting by Kevin Macneil Brown, watercolor on paper, October 2013.

Old moon, shining, sets.

The opposite sky is steeped in the luminous

blood of new roses.

Last leaves shimmer in hard darkness.

Cold wind, slicing, Pleistoscene

finds long-lost dreams

of flint, fog, footpath;

dark spruce and blue-black

homeward waters.

-Kevin Macneil Brown