Listening by Margaret Avison

Author:Margaret Avison [Avison, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55199-421-5
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2009-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

Song from Swans

A swanherd stoops

out of his door too

early, too shivery. Preoccupied, he

brushes through the

rivery approaches. Grasses are

briefly festooned: dewdrops loll on

the tips till shone

on. They will

lift their tiny

granular green uncapped

tops to see and

be seen, ‘way down below

eye level.

The swans this hour

are sleepy, honking a

little. But they are

singers. Their far

song, once in a

poem read about, he,

gruffly gentle with

them, longs to

one day hear.

Meanwhile it is

enough when the

steam is off the

skywide bowl over

this earth, its hills,

its rivers running, its

creatures cared for; even over

human beings, in

familied swarms or the

loners, a few. Humans alone must

shudder into morning

clothes, wrap up for

warmth, unthinking but

somehow, at this hour, blessed.

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