Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Nature poem of the day #1

From the October 29 issue of The New Yorker:



Sunlight Bets on the Come
by Charles Wright


The basic pleasures remain unchanged,
and their minor satisfactions—
Chopping wood, building a fire,
Watching the elk herd
splinter and cruise around the outcrop of spruce trees

As the deer haul ass,
their white flags like synchronized swimmers’ hands,
Sunlight sealing—stretched like Saran wrap—
The world as we know it,
keeping it fresh-flamed should tomorrow arrive.

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