Monday, May 17, 2010

Alongside the Pond

At the edge of vision
just short of sight
pond air shimmers pearly
unbroken ungated. Bright
mist engages me
silent unmediated.

When I turn
and look into it

I want birds.

~ Marie Ponsot, b. 1921, American poet and translator
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