I love ravens, and I adore this poem.
I quite deliberately have not done as I should, and cut it for
replying. Because I want to be sure everyone sees it.
Another feather, so to speak.
On 8/10/05, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Poetry Seeks Radiance
> (on a line misheard at a lecture)
>
> Poetry seeks ravens
> I thought he said,
> catching a dark feather
> from the gibbet birds,
> their proof of poetry's
> keen eye and murderous
> merciless beak.
>
> The only radiance here
> is the shining bones
> pecked clean, the purest
> possible form. If this
> is tumbled in its chains
> we must reassemble
> it with unflinching hands.
>
>
> Joanna Boulter
> Darlington UK
>
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