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The Trouble with Light

by Fred Cogswell

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Fall Walk
I still remember what the farm looked like
In the Fall when we were young. We would walk
To the farthest pasture, a one-mile hike,
And on the way we'd hardly ever talk.

Late November, and each night Winter's vice
Grew tighter on what leaves were left to brown.
The water in the lane-ruts turned to ice
That broke and tinkled when our boots came down.

The only warm-colored thing was one spruce
Near the orchard. The apple boughs were bare,
And as we breathed it seemed the smell of juice
Still lingered in the taste of morning air.

Careless we ate the air and drank the light
For the last time before the world turned white.
Copyright © by Borealis Press Ltd.
and Fred Cogswell,
1997 - 2001.

Other Borealis Press titles by Fred Cogswell:

With Vision Added (2000)
A Double Question (1999)
Folds (1997)
As I See It (1994)
In My Own Growing (1993)
In Praise of Older Music (1992)
When the Right Light Shines (1992)
Watching An Eagle (1991)
Black and White Tapestry (1989)
The Best Notes Merge (1988)

About the Author

Recently awarded the Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English-language literature by the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, Fred Cogswell is widely known as once editor of The Fiddlehead and publisher of Fiddlehead Poetry Books, as a leading critic, and a translator, including The Complete Poems Emile Nelligan. His own poetry has been much published and translated abroad.


Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Cogswell, Fred, 1917 -
The Trouble with Light



1st. ed.
Poems.
ISBN 0-88887-919-9 (bound) - ISBN 0-88887-140-6 (pbk.)

I. Title.

PS8505.O48T76 1996  C811´.54  C95-9004-04-1
PR9199.3.C6T76 1996

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Updated: February 18, 2001.


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