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Septuagesima

John Burnside

I dream of the silence
the day before Adam came
to name the animals,

The gold skins newly dropped
from God's bright fingers, still 
implicit with the light.

A day like this, perhaps:
a winter whiteness
haunting the creation,

as we are sometimes
haunted by the space
we fill, or by the forms

we might have known
before the names,
beyond the gloss of things.


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Added: 14 Oct 2002 | Last Read: 16 Oct 2008 3:01 AM | Viewed: 1993 times

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