Nature
Irradiations: X
From Irradiations: Sand and Spray (1915)
Nature
The trees, like great jade elephants,
Chained, stamp and shake 'neath the gadflies of the breeze
The trees lunge and plunge, unruly elephants:
The clouds are their crimson howdah-canopies,
The sunlight glints like the golden robe of a Shah.
Would I were tossed on the wrinkled backs of those trees
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Fletcher, John Gould. “Irradiations: X.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher/14/.
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