Sustaineth

Sustaineth, or Rouging

Our Treasured Plain

and All Who Walk It

Mischa Willett

after Attilio Bertolucci

In every instance, you,
streaming cloudblind ribbons,
gilt the grey and all who wept 
under it, a manifest, 
all forests full 
of deer, all tree
of fruit, but more:
figured in 
face after face of each each
at bottom, at base,

new
new
new
new

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Mischa Willett
Poet & Scholar

Mischa is the author of The Elegy Beta & Phases and published in First Things & Relief Journal

Photography by Patrick Langwallner