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For Poetry Monday:

Wings at Dawn, Joseph Auslander

Dawn is dense with twitter,
    And the white air swims and sings
In rapid wings that glitter,
    And the flashing of wings—
    Delicate and fugitive shiverings.

The dews curl up in haze,
    While the sun from his hive
Like a giant bee ablaze
    Bursts dizzily alive—
    And through the glow a thousand swallows dive.

Light like a storm
    Deluges the grass,
And birds in a swarm
    Wheel, dwindle and mass—
    And their wings are split silver as they pass.


Auslander (1897-1965) was the first U.S. Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress, serving from 1937 to 1941.)

---L.

Subject quote from The Blessed Damozel, D. G. Rossetti, who TIL claimed he wrote it as a sequel to Poe’s “The Raven.” I ... the heck?

Date: 18 March 2024 05:05 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Nice!

Date: 19 March 2024 01:48 am (UTC)
conuly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] conuly
Oh, now that's amazing.

Date: 19 March 2024 02:27 am (UTC)
asakiyume: (feathers on the line)
From: [personal profile] asakiyume
This is a *fabulous* poem, thank you for sharing it.

"Light like a storm"--what an image. All the image. The sun bursting dizzily alive. Delicate and fugitive shiverings.

It has a very Gerard Manley Hopkins feel to it, but it's its own thing, too. I read it to Wakanomori--he loved it.

Date: 19 March 2024 03:12 pm (UTC)
asakiyume: (more than two)
From: [personal profile] asakiyume
I don't think I know any Archibald MacLeish--I've heard the name, for sure, but I don't know that I've read any of his poems.

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