Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Little Owl Who Lives In The Orchard Comments

Rating: 3.6

His beak could open a bottle,
and his eyes - when he lifts their soft lids -
go on reading something
just beyond your shoulder -
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Mary Oliver
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Stanton Hager 10 May 2007

The last stanza is a prosy, sentimental FOOTNOTE to the powerfully and vividly imagistic stanzas that precede it. If one were to delet the last stanza from one's copybook or computer file, one would have Mary Oliver at her best.

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