- there is the field
- the sun at a certain slant
- cuts a golden slash
- narrowly misses the haystack
- trims the corner off the house.
- there is the horse, grazed
- its long neck curved down
- rigid, expects the light
- to slice it through.
- there is the clump of trees to one side
- huddled, the leaves unturned, muted.
- beneath the heavy branches
- there is a different shade. the absence of.
- or where the day has failed to cut its swath
- there is the spot of a girl, carries
- some thing brushed in brown, she is
- set small in the field to the right
- of the trees & to the left of the house.
- the horse is unmoved, even by the artist.
- the sword of the lowered sun
- misses the horse by half a cloud,
- the girl, altogether