The Gemini Poets
That is a fulmar...
[For the Revd Brian Hebblethwaite (who said on
receiving it that it had been post-rationalized)]
“That is a fulmar; that a cormorant.“
Why should I look?
I know they’re birds
or rare or interesting.
In fact, I know they’ll flyaway.
(No, that's true, too, they could have never come)
(like me!)
Why should I look -
As if I did not trust the general fairness
but must
keep on
checking
up.
(No, never do we learn
but - nearly - sometime know)emn - mar 1972
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