Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Midwest Monostich





trailing        veils           of  rain    .  .   .    .



-- Hamlin Garland, A Son of the Middle Border (1917)

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Monday, September 2, 2019

Hidden glimpses


Brandenburg Gate monostich

He could make out the lorries on the eastern side  through the waving veils of rain.
-- Tim Powers, Declare (2001), p.  267

Foggy mini-monostich

… mists  in the middle distance…
-- Tim Powers, Declare (2001), p. 483

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Phase-shift tableau


Now is the time    of the quarter-moon,
and in the jungle   the changes of the moon
bring   rain .  .   .


[--Peter Matthiessen, The Cloud Forest (1961), p.  242]