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curlytopper
10-22-2006, 10:18 PM
Here's a beautiful poem by renowned poet Mark Strand, I hope you'll love it:

My Name


Once when the lawn was a golden green
and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials
in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed
with the chirr and murmur of insects, I lay in the grass,
feeling the great distances open above me, and wondered
what I would become and where I would find myself,
and though I barely existed, I felt for an instant
that the vast star-clustered sky was mine, and I heard
my name as if for the first time, heard it the way
one hears the wind or the rain, but faint and far off
as though it belonged not to me but to the silence
from which it had come and to which it would go.

- - - Mark Strand


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curlytopper
10-25-2006, 04:19 AM
Fossil Stone from Green River Shales, Wyoming

This slab's an inland sea
for twenty-one ray-finned
fish, their skeletons

incused, a spawning shoal
caught in as much of forever
as this world affords. Delicate

ghostings of the Eocene,
mounted and lit on a facing
wall, they bear the finish

of art, iconic against
the sand-colored stone,
streaked with yellow ochre,

suggesting depths and not
the quiet catastrophic
bloom that sluiced the oxygen

from their gills, left them to rot,
flat in the shallows till the press
of time released them swimming

here, compassed in all directions—
a trick on the willing eye
as if the mouths still gape for air.


- - - Richard Foerster


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