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Snowy owl - poem
Literary Review, Summer, 1998 by Sharon Fain
Ten years old, I climbed stone fences,
side-stepped down hills rough with ice.
Sparrows moved in the branches of pines
but I was after the rare bird, ghost owl
blown off course by a storm.
I tell you this so you will know me,
a Mohawk Valley girl, scientist's daughter
hungry for meaning, saddened
by the flight of galaxies,
how they rush away from us, red-shifting
through a lace of equations.
And the crystalline structure of snow,
invisible in those mounds and drifts,
wind off the frozen river lifting
a powdery dazzle. I wanted to enter
2,043 posted on
01/31/2008 11:18:36 AM PST by
Lady Jag
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To: Lady Jag
Beautiful, beautiful. Great poem!
To: Lady Jag
2,047 posted on
01/31/2008 12:36:30 PM PST by
tomkow6
(................CHANGE We Can Believe............)
To: Lady Jag
Lovely post LJ! Thank you.
2,058 posted on
01/31/2008 10:56:05 PM PST by
potlatch
("Kindness is more important than wisdom, the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom" - Rubin)
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