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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT THE MOON KNOWS, by RICHARD BEHM First Line: The secrets of the owl's wing | |||
The secrets of the owl's wing, The runes of wolf and lynx, The cryptography of shadows on the snow The furtive song of rabbit and mouse, What the rattling oak leaves mean, The cipher of frost on a window Illuminated by a sheen of blue light, Whose footfall crosses the frozen lake Each step erased by the sweep of wind. Where the bones are hidden And how they got there and what You are thinking now staring up Into that stony eye, your heart Just another small creature beating Against the fluttering wall of darkness. Copyright (c) 2001 by The Modern Poetry Association. This poem appears in the September 2001 issue of Poetry Magazine. http://www.poetrymagazine.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A DEAD MAN by CARL SANDBURG THE ICE-CREAM SANDWICH by KAREN SWENSON LEEDLE YAWCOB STRAUSS by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: FOURTH SONG by PHILIP SIDNEY THE LEPER by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (2) by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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