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14 July, 2010

wednesday's poems

birthday by may swenson

What am I dong here?
What are the waves doing running? -
the grass doing growing?
What is the worm doing making its hole? -
the sun glowing? - the stone
sitting unmoving.  Remove
the stone: A shadow is missing.

The moon is making its circle.
A moth is emerging.
A mountain is shifting.  A forest
is burning.  A snake
 is leaving its skin.  A fig tree
is hearing.  What am I doing here -
the waves running and hissing?

Dawn is doing its breaking.
The grass is growing.
A buttercup fills with light.
What am I doing?  What am I making?
What is the stone doing?  Making
its shadow.  The worm is making its hole.

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