Photos always get me!! … “Jane Kenyon, “Things” in “The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon: Poems”.
The hen flings a single pebble aside
with her yellow, reptilian foot.
Never in eternity the same sound—
a small stone falling on a red leaf.
The juncture of twig and branch,
scarred with lichen, is a gate
we might enter, singing.
The mouse pulls batting
from a hundred-year-old quilt.
She chewed a hole in a blue star
to get it, and now she thrives. …
Now is her time to thrive.
Things: simply lasting, then
failing to last: water, a blue heron’s
eye, and the light passing
between them: into light all things
must fall, glad at last to have fallen.
— Jane Kenyon, “Things” in “The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon: Poems”
Notes:
- Photo: DK @ Daybreak. 5 am. May 16, 2022. 61° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from that morning here.
- Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you…
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