slash blue, sweep of gray
scarlet patches – on the way
compose evening sky
A slash of Blue!
A sweep of Gray!
A slash of Blue! A sweep of Gray!
Some scarlet patches – on the way –
Compose an evening sky –
A little purple – slipped between –
Some Ruby Trousers – hurried on –
A Wave of Gold – A Bank of Day –
This just makes out the Morning Sky!
By Emily Dickinson as published in The Complete poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1960).
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