A Suffolk Landscape After Constable
Maisie Bilston
Now on Ward Green the waist-high corn gives way
to the suggestion of wind, the gorse
along the lanes shivers and goes gold-grey
as the light changes over the coarse
pale grasses. And there is a gunmetal sky today
and beyond the fences the horses
shiver like the furze, twist brown necks to bray
at blown poppies and oxlips the fragile force
of their fears. All up windy Wassicks Lane
the cats asleep in sunny patches uncurl
their claws and stalk home along the hedgerows.
In the blue evening quiet, after the rain,
a dog will bark. Time will unfurl
the thin claw-petals of the yellow primrose.
Maisie Bilston is a senior in Pierson College studying English with a Creative Writing Concentration. She has been on the board of The Yale Literary Magazine for three years and is co-founder and co editor-in-chief at literary magazine Cherry Road Review. Her writing has won awards at Yale including the Albert Stanburrough Cook, Gordon Barber Memorial, and Academy of American Poets Prizes.
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