Yvonne Livingstone Kania Poet Concrete

Swan

Dusk
                     Above the
             water hang the
                        loud
                       flies
                       Here
                       O so
                       gray
                      then
                     What         A pale signal will appear
                    When        Soon before its shadow fades
                   Where       Here in this pool of opened eye
                   In us    No Upon us As at the very edge
                    of where we take shape in the dark air
                     this object bares its image awakening
                      ripples of recognition that will 
                       brush darkness up into light
   even after this bird this hour both drift by atop the perfect sad instant now
                        already passing out of sight
                       toward yet-untroubled reflection
                      this image bears its object darkening
                     into memorial shades Scattered bits of
                    light    No of water Or something across
                    water     Breaking up No Being regathered
                     soon       Yet by then a swan will have
                      gone         Yes out of mind into what
                       vast
                        pale
                         hush
                          of a
                          place
                           past
                sudden dark as
                       if a swan
                          sang

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