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Photo by Matthea Harvey — which should be titled: “Winter in New York.”

Photo by Matthea Harvey — which should be titled: “Winter in New York.”

Why do you shiver there
Between the white river and the road?
You are not cold,
With the sun light dreaming about you;
And yet you lift your pliant supplicating arms as though
To draw clouds from the sky to hide your slenderness.

You are a young girl
Trembling in the throes of ecstatic modesty,
A white objective girl
Whose clothing has been forcibly taken away from her.

“A Poplar” by William Faulkner. Yes, he wrote poetry.
Philip. Guston.

Philip. Guston.