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Monday, December 8, 2008

THE MOCKINGBIRD




for Gilbert

Starting in March the dry laburnum beside the house 
Fountains light frothy clusters that scatter and fall,
 
Spattering the sidewalk, porch and lawn 
With spots and splashes of bright yellow.
 
Now in the cool gray light of dawn, 
The mockingbird flings out his long,  
Steep-scaled, abrupt, and convoluted arias.
 
Unseen beneath the vertical glare of noon, 
All through the deepening blue hours, 
 
Into night’s velvet blackness and the moons 
Stark chiaroscuro, and long after    
                
The silent moon has set, the mockingbird 
Sobs, throbs, trills, spills and spurts and oozes 
His extravagant bel canto.
 
No love duet, this solo burst from the male heart 
That knows no rest and needs no consolation—
 
This is art forcing life, life forcing art 
Out of the purest desolation.






































 

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