Quote of the Day (Amy Clampitt, on an ‘Autograph on Thawing Snowbanks’)

“In January, shed twigs of hemlock

leave their runic offprint of an

autograph on thawing snowbanks

“whose meltwaters go down loquacious

in torques, in curdlings, cadenzas

by the earful.”— Amy Clampitt, “Runes, Blurs, Sap Rising,” in The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (2011)

The image accompanying this post shows the brook near my house.