Tuesday, January 22, 2008

antelope standing in the dawn mist

Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that.

~From Failing and Flying, Jack Gilbert

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