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  C.B. Anderson


Published on: 1/14/2016
Evening Approaches on the Fourth

... Here once the embattled farmers stood...
            — Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Concord Hymn"

Some large exfoliating tawny patches
Of bark hang loosely from the river birch
Which shades our patio, and they remind
      Us of the parchment signed
Two centuries ago when State and Church
      Were one. A robin catches

A caterpillar on the ground, and thus
Seems fully fit and able to declare
Its independence. While mosquitoes hover
      Like suitors round a lover,
Aggressive squads of swifts patrol the air
      Above, defending us

From reinforcements. Many kinds of flowers
Close up at night, but we have planted others
That open after dark: They summon moths
      As checkered tablecloths
Might summon us, and like attentive mothers
      We watch them play for hours.

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