Dream tapestries

by Louise Morey Bowman

Printed in Canada

TO
ARCHIBALD ABERCROMBY BOWMAN

I wish to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors of Poetry (Chicago), The Bookman (New York), The Canadian Forum, and The Canadian Magazine, in permitting me to reprint “Cold Tragedy,” “Bread and Fire,” “Moment Musical,” “Blue Moon,” and “Oranges.”

CONTENTS

	PAGE
The Wingéd Cloak	[11]
DREAM TAPESTRIES
Hyacinth	[15]
Enchanted Wood	[16]
Green Apples	[19]
ORANGES
Oranges	[25]
THE MOUNTAIN THAT WATCHED
The Mountain that Watched	[33]
The Old Fruit Garden	[40]
SONGS OF WOMEN
Blue Moon	[45]
Mistress Mary	[46]
Daffy-Down-Dilly	[47]
The Birth-Night	[48]
A Portrait	[50]
The Song of the Willow Wand	[52]
The Dead Violin	[54]
A Sketch	[57]
CINQUAINS
City Child’s Easter	[61]
Deep Snow	[62]
Twelve Hokku on a Canadian Theme	[64]
Life Sequence (In the Hokku Manner)	[66]
Prayer in Scarlet and White Paint	[67]
COLD TRAGEDY
Cold Tragedy	[71]
HOMESPUN
Twins	[75]
Bob Cooning	[80]
Sympathy	[84]
False Dawn	[85]
The Witch	[86]
The Post Box	[88]
Song	[89]
Bread and Fire	[90]
“Moment Musical”	[91]

THE WINGÉD CLOAK

I DRAW my cloak about me ...

Tattered and gray

To others it may be.

It seems to me