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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Adams [1]

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Date: 2023-02-10  

A Gull Goes Up

by Léonie Adams (1899-1988)

Gulls when they fly move in a liquid arc,

Still head, and wings that bend above the breast,

Covering its glitter with a cloak of dark,

Gulls fly. So as at last toward balm and rest,

Remembering wings, the desperate leave their earth,

Bear from their earth what there was ruinous-crossed,

Peace from distress, and love from nothing-worth,

Fast at the heart, its jewels of dear cost.

Gulls go up hushed to that entrancing flight,

With never a feather of all the body stirred.

So in an air less rare than longing might

The dream of flying lift a marble bird.

Desire it is that flies; then wings are freight

That only bear the feathered heart no weight.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on January 7, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.

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