Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 27, 1918

P.M. by way of Painter Rd. — Millville and beyond –

On Painter road the winter sun died in haze —

The flat swamp stretch with its hideous black tree fragments –

Return Millville at night — The ugly tumble down house, one light in window — a strange guitar melody commences; and sways dreamily in; how the gaunt pear tree outside shoots up at the sky; a running brook at one side; from behind, out of the hills comes the rumbling of a train —

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 27, 1918