When every winged thing
was falling for sweetness
in my cup,
in the last dregs of light
at the end of a sunset dock,
I gave up
and poured it in the lake,
and watched that cloud of cream
expand and hold
an instant in the dark water,
before summer knelt
into the cold,
dispersing her bright crystals.
Patrick Donnelly
The Yale Review
Volume 91, Number 4
October 2003
I noticed you read Toni Morrison's Beloved. Is this the novel that Oprah's movie was based on? Did you see the movie? Was the book better?
Posted by: Shannon at October 6, 2003 08:55 PM