Alice Trumbull Mason
Early Writings and Paintings

From Tether 2, page 21

ABSTRACT WRITING. 1942
Whips inside out that withered crouch lets up like amber
bundle shone
as interludes are worn
new victuals shuttle evenly and pitch away

a fragment after tender left eight dimming vines and blooms
bridges follow
whistling buds in mouth
of individuals linen in the sea.
Shelter fastened
hair to bubbles thirstily
where some forked off, but wool picked each erect
fresh bowls tip up
as fever shawls tug latches together past noon to be sent to north
laughter

               its orchard
and window pools red sediment recedes
to paper walls
thin ditches and no sums.