Pass By Blue Stone

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Buckbean or Bog-bean (Menynthes trifoliata). The Baney Hole near Windyhouse Farm, Barrmill, Ayrshire, Scotland. An old quarry or bell pit: photo by Roger Griffin, 24 August 2010

Pass by Blue Stone Well in sun's first day in March
where the fox roams upon paw and tries advance
.....to the whitewashed fence.  Rank

red fox smell for the setter.
Blind rattles in the dry
bush.  Brown-leaf.  Clearwater
.....in the runnels.

1st day of Spring March 21st advance
Introduction of animals to the West
.....Pasture today begins.  By

the low water
.....a buckbean shoot
shining in the mud.

.....Bless the weather
the green
.....dung.  The Spring
grasses.
.....The yellow loosestrife yet
to come.



TC: Pass By Blue Stone, from Poetry Vol. 105, No. 2 (November 1964)

 Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), male, Horsefly Peninsula, Quesnel Lake, British Columbia: photo by Alan D. Wilson, 2006

 

Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris), found in prairie along flood plain by the South Saskatchewan River: photo by SriMesh, 1 August 2008