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"Desert Rhythms" - Watercolor Copyright 2015. All Rights Reserved.
The Swan
by Mary Oliver
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
into the bondage of its wings; a
snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music - like the rain
pelting the trees - like a waterfall
Knifing down the black ledges?
And did you see it, finally, just under
the clouds -
A white cross Streaming across the sky,
its feet
Like black leaves, its wings Like the
stretching light of the river?
And did you feel it,
in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too
finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed
your life?
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