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Young, George, 1938- / Bird of paradise: poetry
(2011)
Two ways of listening to a meadowlark, p. 15
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Two Ways Of Listening To A Meadowlark There are two simultaneous songs, a pearl- colored one, new, and the other one, ancient, fashioned by Darwin's hammer. They go back and forth in your brain like that picture of two black figures that can be either a white vase or the faces of two women facing each other. There now, on a fence post with its head up, its long beak open-watch the yellow throat throb, listen as one song shimmers into the other- a meadowlark singing to a meadowlark, and pearls of sound, the best poetry around. 15
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