Still Lives (With Hedge and Fruit Trees)

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As black as any June these shadows lie
between the sun's deep illumination,
bright wafers placed to stiffening oblation;
a wall of light flakes, dark recesses tie.

Light sculptures dark and both lie deep content;
a breeze that flaunts their interchanges plays
with rich intricacies, till cloud-edged haze
drains leaf-lamps, black shades to grey movement.

Unclouded now the little space where float
those apple globes - sun-crescents in cluster
of green sails - and hides the trick of trailing bough

against dark backdrop. These magics muster,
self-organized, prod painterly know-how.
Breeze pauses: over his still-lives sun gloats.

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