Being Content With Wakened Birds   Leave a comment

Eastern Blubird-0515-72Male Eastern Bluebird in Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne

She says, “I am content when wakened birds,

Before they fly, test the reality

Of misty fields, by their sweet questionings;

But when the birds are gone, and their warm fields

Return no more, where, then, is paradise?”

— from Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens

 

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