Thursday, June 14, 2012

Daily Dose

From Passing Through: The Later Poems, New & Selected, by Stanley Kunitz

DAY OF FOREBODING

Great events are about to happen.
I have seen migratory birds
in unprecedented numbers
descend on the coastal plain,
picking the margins clean.
My bones are a family in their tent
huddled over a small fire
waiting for the uncertain signal
to resume the long march.

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