Margaret
Many birds and the beating of wings
Make a flinging reckless hum
In the early morning at the rocks
Above the blue pool
Where the gray shadows swim lazy.
In your blue eyes, O reckless child,
I saw today many little wild wishes,
Eager as the great morning.
Carl Sandburg
I had to read it several times to get the simple and obvious simile — I think I was thinking too hard and had to just let it be. Very nice.
And I see Apple has illustrious forbears in the game of adjectives standing in for adverbs …
Comment by adam — March 30, 2007 @ 7:32 am