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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
What It Means to Observe
Galway Kinnell offers a pitch-perfect example of noticing, observing and naming.
Daybreak
On the tidal mud, just before sunset, dozens of starfishes were creeping. It was as though the mud were a sky and enormous, imperfect stars moved across it as slowly as the actual stars cross heaven. All at once they stopped, and, as if they had simply increased their receptivity to gravity, they sank down into the mud; they faded down into it and lay still, and by the time pink of sunset broke across them they were as invisible as the true stars at daybreak.
- Galway Kinnell
From: A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, edited by Czeslaw Milosz (1998)
wow, again! forwarded this to robyn...
ReplyDeletelove this poem. glad you do too.
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