Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree

V-I SO SHE CAME BACK
V-II THE LAST WHITE SAWDUST
V-III SHE FILLED HER ARMS WITH WOOD
V-IV THE WHITE BARK WRITHED
V-V THE WAGON STOPPED BEFORE THE HOUSE
V-VI THEN CAUTIOUSLY SHE PUSHED
V-VII ONE WAY THERE WAS
V-VIII SHE LET THEM LEAVE THEIR JELLIES
V-IX NOT OVER-KIND NOR OVER-QUICK
V-X SHE HAD FORGOTTEN
V-XI IT CAME INTO HER MIND
V-XII TENDERLY, IN THOSE TIMES
V-XIII FROM THE WAN DREAM
V-XIV SHE HAD A HORROR
V-XV THERE WAS UPON THE SILL
V-XVI THE DOCTOR ASKED HER
V-XVII GAZING UPON HIM NOW

        Edna St. Vincent Millay