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

One thought on “Margaret

  1. 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 …

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