Some/Many say a crow is a Blackbird just as is a black thrush or a Raven and others... Here I spotted one realized like real lies at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach just before Noon on 7/21/2014... and as the poet would have it in his classic way: I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. .... IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. .... VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. .... Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:02:01 +0000
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