a side yard, a snowbank - a photo on Flickriver

            Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? 
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air----
An armful of white blossoms, 
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned 
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies, 
Biting the air with its black beak? 
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling 
A shrill dark music ---like the rain pelting the trees 
like a waterfall 
Knifing down the black ledges? 
And did you see it, finally, just under the clouds ---
A white cross 
Streaming across the sky, its feet 
Like black leaves, its wings 
Like the stretching light of the river? 
And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything? 
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for? 
And have you changed your life? 
-----Mary Oliver

   

Taken on: March 27, 2010

Tags:

Lenten rose

yard

flowers

hellebore

home

the Cove

springtime

March

2010

botanical

dreamlike « less

Sets appears in: • landscape format • images and words together more » • at the Cove • 2010 • Lenten roses/hellebore • gratitude • all my relations • why not become all fire? • botanicals • painterly • flowers • blues « less

Groups appears in: • actual poetry • A Place to find Peace

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD780 IS, f/3.2, 1/15 sec, 5.9mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot SD780 IS
Aperture:	f/3.2
Exposure Time:	0.067 sec (1/15)
Focal Length:	5.9mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6000.16386
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