Monday, January 13, 2003

The Swan Comments

Rating: 4.1

Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
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Mary Oliver
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James Atkins 30 January 2005

Love the line 'And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? ' ...changed the context of the poem for me into something of a larger scale. (If that makes any sort of sense)

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