Aug 2016
Morning frost lambently fine
Beneath a sky of madder and blue
Wheel gulls crying foul
To a fleeting packet of cold silver food.
The same they sounded
As Joyce did listen, once upon a time.
© 2016
Beneath a sky of madder and blue
Wheel gulls crying foul
To a fleeting packet of cold silver food.
The same they sounded
As Joyce did listen, once upon a time.
© 2016
Joyce being James Joyce: the gulls from a scene in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." One has to wonder if Joyce heard those gulls differently from those of us not bless with genius.
(Rhode Island, USA)
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