The Dial (Third Series)/Volume 75/The Precincts of February

by Yvor Winters

THE PRECINCTS OF FEBRUARY

BY YVOR WINTERS

Junipers,
Steely shadows
Floating the jay.
A man,

Heavy and iron-black,
Alone in sun,
Threading the grass.
The cold

Coming again
As spring
Came up the valley,
But to stay

Rooted deep in the land;
The stone-pierced shadows
Trod by the bird
For day on day.