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Wet almond-trees, in the rain, / Like iron sticking grimly out of earth; / Black almond trunks, in the rain, / Like iron implements twisted, hideous, out of the earth, / Out of the deep, soft fledge of Sicilian winter-green, / Earth-grass uneatable, / Almond trunks curving blackly, iron-dark, climbing the slopes.
Almond-tree, beneath the terrace rail, / Black, rusted, iron trunk, / You have welded your thin stems finer, / Like steel, like sensitive steel in the air, / Grey, lavender, sensitive steel, curving thinly and brittly up in a parabola.