Monday, May 9, 2011

End Of A Day Comments

Rating: 2.9

In the long evening of April through the cool light
Bayle's two sheep dogs sail down the lane like magpies
for the flock a moment before he appears near the oaks
a stub of a man rolling as he approaches
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William Stanley Merwin
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Michael Hogan 08 September 2013

A powerful elegiac piece in which the property rights of a neighbor tear the soul out of the land. Moving to me because so understated and because of the helplessness of the narrator in the face of such thoughtless brutality.

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William Stanley Merwin

William Stanley Merwin

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