Poetry Friday: A Gallant Woman by Clara Shanafelt

She burst fierce wine
From the tough skin of pain,
Like wind that wrings from rigid skies
A scant and bitter gleam,
Long after the autumnal dusk
Has folded all the valleys in.

- A Gallant Woman by Clara Shanafelt

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