Dissolve

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Putting on shades to quiet restless eyes,
tone down a dull day's stoup of warm tureen,
suiting the sup of bees and butterflies;
though drab birds doze within deep walls of green.

Weightier apples tug down at each bough
to shape the autumn / winter skeleton:
when bud-twigs antler upwards anyhow,
that lancing light must undulations run.

A ruffle's intermittent in the leaves,
and thistledown drifts slowly on strange trails;
dream intermits: rain patters on my sleeves,
ceases in seconds; sunlight gleams and fails.

Suspended animation seems so kind,
in semi-somnolence  dissolving mind.

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It's another descriptive sonnet, of course, whether of flag, wind or mind.


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