The Woods At Night
by May Swenson
The binocular owl,
fastened to a limb
like a lantern
all night long,
sees where all
the other birds sleep:
towhee under leaves,
titmouse deep
in a twighouse,
sapsucker gripped
to a knothole lip,
redwing in the reeds,
swallow in the willow,
flicker in the oak –
but cannot see poor
whippoorwill
under the hill
in deadbrush nest,
who’s awake, too –
with stricken eye
flayed by the moon
her brindled breast
repeats, repeats, repeats its plea
for cruelty.
End of the poem
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- Низами Гянджеви – День мой благословен
- Как тамада я выступаю в роли теоретика
- To a friend by Vinko Kalinić
- Владимир Маяковский – Небылицы в лицах
- Олег Бундур – Если умываться лень
- A Cat Called Shan by Pamela Griffiths
- The Maid Vor My Bride by William Barnes
- Vows
- A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
- Storm
- Какое это счастье – Материнство
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- Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
- An Essay On Criticism poem – Alexander Pope
- Яков Полонский – Наплывает туча с моря
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