onsdag 15 maj 2019

"gräset gror och lövet grönskar"

Listening to the Orchard Oriole, 1902
 Childe Hassam  


first green flare

makes 

the air 

quiver 
and dart 

the throat 
ache 

to call 
makes 

the heart 
cheer 

the ear 
keen 

to the sheer 
glorious 

windfall 
of oriole 

veery 
vireo 
                           Sidney Wade


About this poem
"There is that single day, or hour, every year in early spring when the fresh new green leaves are dazzlingly lit from inside. This coincides with the return of the birds. It is ache-making."
-Sidney Wade 


John James Audubon 

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