Poetry: Fog
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On the morn of wispy fog I stood in the chill dawn
I watched it feather it's way up the sign posts
Curling like bony fingers around trees and busses and traffic lights
I watched it pouring over the foothills like dry ice pours from a beaker in science lab
I shiver in the coolness wondering why I didn't wear a sweater
I watch the first floor of my school building disappear in the encroaching fog
I would be late again
I wasn't meant to be locked in a room all day even if it was in the name of education
I was meant to feel the fog wrapping around my ankles
I watched it obliterate all the details around me
I basked in the surrealistic glow
I heard the relentless bell ringing in the distance
I walked with lead feet in that direction
Oak trees in the fog.
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Thank You Fog: Last Poems by W H Auden 1st/1st HC/DJ (NY: Random House, 1974)
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Thank You, Fog by W. H. Auden (1974, 1st)
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Iðunn 4 years ago
my friend, I love this one. the fog becomes it's own powerful entity/alternate reality and it becomes too, love (to me).
your imagery is extraordinary and effective here.