Monday, April 11, 2022

gently rolling hills of Appalachia

The curves 

of her body 

reminded him

of the gently rolling hills 

below the mountains 

where he lived as a boy. 


Her brown eyes 

were the earth to him.

She was beautiful 

like the land, 

like the flowers 

he found 

as he roamed the countryside

barefooted,

like the leaves 

of the trees 

that sparkled green 

after the rains 

of the rainy season.


- Trevor Scott Barton, poems for a brown eyed girl, 2022




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