Cold Damp morning.
The blue jay’s clanking call.
Parrot-like grotesque of Baptist Church–
Poplars bristle upward.
An organ playing; the first time reminds of romantic pioneer days in Ohio. Next, The Church in the “Dell” a lively remote house in a dense wood at Dusk, beyond the house the deep black recess in the woods.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, November 16, 1917