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    John Hollander - Swan and Shadow.

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    JOHN HOLLANDER b. 1929 Swan and Shadow Dusk Above the water hang the oud flies Here Os gray then What ‘A pale signal will appear When Soon before its shadow fades Where ___Here in this pool of opened eye Inus. No Upon us As at the very edges ‘of where we take shape in the dark air this object bares its image awakening ripples of recognition that will brush darkness up into light even after this bird this hour both drift by atop the perfect sad instant now already passing out of sight toward yet-untroubled reflection this image bears its object darkening into memorial shades Scattered bits of light No of water Or something across water Breaking up No Being regathered soon Yet by then a swan will have gone Yes out of mind into what vast pale hush ofa place past sudden dark as if a swan sang 1969

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