Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Wiliam Stafford - Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron


Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron
 
Out of their loneliness for each other
two reeds, or maybe two shadows, lurch
forward and become suddenly a life
lifted from dawn or the rain.  It is
the wilderness come back again, a lagoon
with our city reflected in its eye.
We live by faith in such presences.
 
It is a test for us, that thin
but real, undulating figure that promises,
"If you keep faith I will exist
at the edge, where your vision joins
the sunlight and the rain: heads in the light,
feet that go down in the mud where the truth is."
 
- William Stafford
 
 

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