An aspen or

two hundred and fifty blurred nymphae,

of these I dream in a coarse habit

and wake gasping,

convinced of the withering performed

by dew and a thousand sediments.

Shaken roughly at matins,

and rolling nearer the scorched logs,

you murmur sleepily, “This is only artifice.”

And adding after taking glasses

from the bedside table,

“Soon to burst above the mere:

an orange tongue of flame.”

 

Harrison Montgomery

 

Harrison Montgomery is an undergraduate at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He is studying poetry and music composition and is involved with the Kenyon Review.

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