everyadventure
07-30-2011, 01:00 AM
We spend the day picnicking
on the grounds of Threave Castle
in the shadow of lichened stone
and agreeable ghosts.
We watch our children
darting through foxtail and oat-grass,
summer-brown and quick as rabbits.
How did we spawn such creatures,
these tangle-haired girls, so wild and free?
"Let me paint you," he says,
and I laugh, gesturing to the castle ruins,
hulking and solemn against the blue-violet sky
of a steeping storm.
"Och, no," he says,
tugging at the yellow ribbon sash
of my eyelet summer dress.
"What a sight you are..."
The wind stirs,
sweeping off my straw hat,
skipping it like a stone
across rippling grass.
My sash is between his fingers;
it unfurls when I rise,
caught by the wind like a kite.
This is the scene he will paint:
A woman with wind-swept hair
wearing a smile of dismayed delight
and a white dress that gusts about her knees,
hem billowing upward
as if to follow
the silken stream of sunlight
set loose against churning sky.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kYze4LQir8A/S6IhYE5crOI/AAAAAAAACtY/_knFwe9NQkc/s320/Threve+Castle+postcard+front.jpg
on the grounds of Threave Castle
in the shadow of lichened stone
and agreeable ghosts.
We watch our children
darting through foxtail and oat-grass,
summer-brown and quick as rabbits.
How did we spawn such creatures,
these tangle-haired girls, so wild and free?
"Let me paint you," he says,
and I laugh, gesturing to the castle ruins,
hulking and solemn against the blue-violet sky
of a steeping storm.
"Och, no," he says,
tugging at the yellow ribbon sash
of my eyelet summer dress.
"What a sight you are..."
The wind stirs,
sweeping off my straw hat,
skipping it like a stone
across rippling grass.
My sash is between his fingers;
it unfurls when I rise,
caught by the wind like a kite.
This is the scene he will paint:
A woman with wind-swept hair
wearing a smile of dismayed delight
and a white dress that gusts about her knees,
hem billowing upward
as if to follow
the silken stream of sunlight
set loose against churning sky.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kYze4LQir8A/S6IhYE5crOI/AAAAAAAACtY/_knFwe9NQkc/s320/Threve+Castle+postcard+front.jpg