Dark Wings

Just folding his wings, the handsome wood duck

among wafer-crisp cottonwood leaves.

Sleep

I love to lie down weary

under the stalk of sleep

growing slowly out of my head,

the dark leaves meshing.

Wendell Berry

Terrapin and Other Poems;

Illustrated by Tom Pohrt,

Counterpoint, 2014, page 29.

This book was made of Wendell Berry poems chosen by the illustrator 

to make an beautiful and simple book for children. I think it will make a lovely holiday gift!