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# The Howl and the Wind
- URL: https://www.yacubdavidsmith.com/the-howl-and-the-wind/
- Published: 2026-09-26T06:09:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-28T14:21:20.000Z
- Author: yacub david smith
- Tags: Poetry, Just Like Cambridge

Howling autumn crisp / robust flutter,   
foxes pensive, pounce / intense — eerie.   
this foggy water / wind brushes the maple,   
granite and schist, barriers ambient,   
snapping amphibians / silver riverine vocalizations, we bounce lightly. 

Creaking branches / groaning banks,   
formed by an ancient sea / rustle,   
the soil unearths / a pitch,   
whistling and shushing / sounds like farming,   
the floodplains with her green,   
erosion region / gneiss breeds us,   
we bounce lightly, holding the flame.  
  
Swept suddenly away / in a sandstone riverbed,   
to rusty pecks / natural shales while   
hardwood whinnying / beech howls at   
our Connecticut River / her wooded wildlife /   
her early brittle hoots / eerie as we age,   
eerie as our dust,   
scatters down from Ledyard.