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Sunday, July 3, 2011

SUNDAY POETRY: "DISTANT COASTS"


DISTANT COASTS
by John Gould Fletcher
      from Japanese Prints


 A squall has struck the sea afar off.
You can feel it quiver
Over the paper parasol
With which she shields her face;

In the drawn-together skirts of her robes,
As she turns to meet it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Top photo from here. Bottom photo from here.) 

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