Out at sea the sun was shining, but only in one place, like a silver dish on the rain-darkened water. A single whale, sated with love, steaming north from Baja, was too distant to see, but we could see where he was breathing: a tree made of water and filled with silver light appeared on the air, already falling, and after a whale-breath, reappeared -- the selfsame form -- a little farther north each time. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MARIA WENTWORTH by THOMAS CAREW SONG OF THE RABBITS OUTSIDE THE TAVERN by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH ECHO SONG by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH OF BENEVOLENCE: AN EPISTLE TO EUMENES by JOHN ARMSTRONG THE INVITATION by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD CHORUS OF A SONG THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY ALBERT CHEVALIER by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM |