Surprising sometimes what evokes a memory.
Catbirds aren't common here.
We wawl and cry'"
- King Lear
This is something new
And yet I remember
How once I held it,
How the sound fell
And my hands caught
The terrible tiny weight
Of the trembling breath
Taken in and let go . . .
A first figure of speech
Truer than any word,
Like this catbird's cry
I can almost reach,
Slipping into the light
From the womb of the willow.
Poetry by countryfog
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Written on 2010-12-05 at 16:21
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Catbirds aren't common here.
Nativity
"Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,We wawl and cry'"
- King Lear
This is something new
And yet I remember
How once I held it,
How the sound fell
And my hands caught
The terrible tiny weight
Of the trembling breath
Taken in and let go . . .
A first figure of speech
Truer than any word,
Like this catbird's cry
I can almost reach,
Slipping into the light
From the womb of the willow.
Poetry by countryfog
Read 421 times
Written on 2010-12-05 at 16:21
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