Swan and Shadow
Dusk Above the
water hang the loud flies Here O so gray then What A pale signal will appear When Soon before its shadow fadesWhere Here in this pool of opened eyeIn us No Upon us As at the very edges 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 oflight No of water Or something acrosswater 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 asif a swan sang
Hollander, John: " Swan and Shadow. " From TYPES OF SHAPE (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1991). Reprinted by permission of the author.
water hang the loud flies Here O so gray then What A pale signal will appear When Soon before its shadow fadesWhere Here in this pool of opened eyeIn us No Upon us As at the very edges 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 oflight No of water Or something acrosswater 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 asif a swan sang
Hollander, John: " Swan and Shadow. " From TYPES OF SHAPE (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1991). Reprinted by permission of the author.
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