F E B R U A R Y 1 9 9 7 ![]() THE CHANGEby Stephen Sandy | |||||||||||||
Also by Stephen Sandy: Earth Day Story (1991) My Place (1996)
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Those yews at winter's end, near-black on snow -- she said as they walked -- are the proper green for the shutters of a house.
He wondered, walking there
of blackberry thorned and bare.
the neutral tones of March,
and change. Without a word
had sealed its doors on theirs.
and answered her -- now half
but that the yews would change:
Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; February 1997; Like No Other; Volume 279, No. 2; page 52. |
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