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# Trellises
- URL: https://www.ronaldjstewart.com/trellises/
- Published: 2025-06-15T15:02:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-15T15:02:37.000Z
- Author: RJ Stewart
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1782421393762, #Import 2026-06-25 21:04

##### ON THE

sixth day

the smallest

leaf trailed

a winding

tendril

to the left

along

a ridge

of wire rope

as if below

a couloir

its iced

gorge

come alive

with

columbine

penstemon

saxifrage

fed from snows

and readied

for long

summer climbs

like those we made

as muscled

youths

##### STRUNG TIGHT

and waiting

this wire

anticipates

an heroic

reach

and echoes

chirks

from granite walls

'on belay!"

climbing

against

forces feared

but not yet

understood

nor yet

resisted -

Gravity

and

Time

##### THESE MEN

emerging

made no

solo ascent

but one

not soon

forgotten

memoried

like proud

blooms

of honeysuckle

appointed in

vermillion

aureolin

cremnitz white

and trellised

for the

restful

seventh days

of summer

and days

after

until

the final

autumn

day comes

whitening

as it always does

—***RJ Stewart***

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