Caveat: Tree #894

This tree was across the street from my apartment in Yeonggwang, Jeollanam, South Korea. I took the picture in December, 2010.
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picture[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]

Caveat: where it is level and undisturbed by colors

A Portrait in Greys

Will it never be possible
to separate you from your greyness?
Must you be always sinking backward
into your grey-brown landscapes—and trees
always in the distance, always against a grey sky?

                          Must I be always
moving counter to you? Is there no place
where we can be at peace together
and the motion of our drawing apart
be altogether taken up?
                         I see myself
standing upon your shoulders touching
a grey, broken sky -
but you, weighted down with me,
yet gripping my ankles, - move
                               laboriously on,
where it is level and undisturbed by colors.

– William Carlos Williams (American poet, 1883-1963)
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