May Swenson Sky Poems

  • 1.
    When in the mask of night there shone that cut,
    we were riddled. A probe reached down
    and stroked some nerve in us,
    as if the glint from a wizard's eye, of silver,
    ...
  • 2.
    What does love look like? We know
    the shape of death. Death is a cloud
    immense and awesome. At first a lid
    is lifted from the eye of light:
    ...
  • 3.
    Little lion face
    I stopped to pick
    among the mass of thick
    succulent blooms, the twice
    ...
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  • 5.
    Blue, but you are Rose, too,
    and buttermilk, but with blood
    dots showing through.
    A little salty your white
    ...
  • 6.
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    A smudge for the horizon
    that, on a clear day, shows
    the hard edge of hills and
    ...
  • 7.
    In the pond in the park
    all things are doubled:
    Long buildings hang and
    wriggle gently. Chimneys
    ...
Total 7 Sky Poems by May Swenson

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