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Monday, March 29, 2010

The Last Picture in the World

A hunched gray shape
framed by leaves
with lake water behind
standing on our
little point of land
like a small monk
in a green monastery
meditating

almost sculpture
except that it's alive
brooding immobile permanent
for half an hour
a blue heron
and it occurs to me
that if I were to die at this moment
that picture would accompany me
wherever I am going
for part of the way

~ Al Purdy (1918-2000), Canadian poet

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