Sunday, November 04, 2018

In Such Kind Ways

—Anonymous Photo



THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES
—Richard Wilbur (1921-2017)
 
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides  
The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies
On water; it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you  
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.

The beautiful changes as a forest is changed  
By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;  
As a mantis, arranged
On a green leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves  
Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.

Your hands hold roses always in a way that says  
They are not only yours; the beautiful changes  
In such kind ways,  
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose  
For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

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—Medusa, reminding you to set them clocks back an hour (fall back).

For more about Richard Wilbur, go to www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richard-wilbur/.
 


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