Among birches moving their white halfnakedness she dances And the veils of her being obscure her or half obscure her for they are her dress or her undress while nearer or farther she dances moving effortless and selfabsorbed like the birches with their sense of naturalness and when she appears naked at last having cast to the breeze her semblances as in her dreams the birches step intricately before her or drench her in cooling shadows all the riches of this presence flowing upon her and through her making her an object in the true world unknowable her dance the dance of things without past or future given and perfect and beyond and inconsolable. 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...IN THE TRENCHES by RICHARD ALDINGTON TO THE ROCK THAT WILL BE A CORNERSTONE OF THE HOUSE by ROBINSON JEFFERS PENT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SHALL I SAY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IN WALKED BUD WITH A PALETTE by CLARENCE MAJOR DOMESDAY BOOK: GREGORY WENNER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: YEE BOW by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |