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Wistfully Dreaming While Awake
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THE ARTS
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3 / 1993 |
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William Oxley
William Oxley is a British poet, translator, and philosopher. |
Nature's Sights and Sounds
Flittering to and from your nest in hedge
Oblivious of cat or human near,
I am reminded once more of making's mystery
By your self-effacing simple care
And persistent gathering of material everywhere:
A writhing worm within your beak's sharp wedge
Of yellow or insect snapped to its last misery,
Or wisp of dead grass borne through air
To shore perhaps some wind-forced split
In your secret fork-supported basket.
In deep concentration of being, sun or rain
You answer inner promptings to create,
Spell out in feathered movement far more sure
A pattern humans cannot imitate
Save when purest inspiration may dictate,
Though never with such ease or lack of pain.
Yet all living things obey the same iron law,
And that which makes the eager blackbird make
Makes every one of us sometime in life
An artist bent on harmonizing strife,
And from the crudest things about us raise
Some structure both of use and praise.
The Unseen
The lampshade throws its arc
Of alert light. Far off
stars swim like fish through night
and buildings cast their beams
glimmering cliffs or
lordly monstrous shadows
crowding a landscape
once raw, once free, now hid.
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