berry-clusters

Updated: August 11, 2026

Now and then at a break in the bluffs, where a little coulee entered the stream, the gray masses of the bull-berry bushes lifted like smoke, and from them, flame-like, flashed the vivid scarlet of the berry-clusters, smiting the general dreaminess like a haughty cry in a silence. A wilderness indeed!

John Gneisenau Neihardt - The River and I