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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets
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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1767)5/24/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir   of 2095
 
VULTURE
Robinson Jeffers {1963}

I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on
.....a bare hillside
Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids
.....a vulture wheeling high up in heaven,
And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer,
.....its orbit narrowing, I understood then
That I was under inspection. I lay death-still
.....and heard the flight-feathers
Whistle above me and make their circle and come nearer.
I could see the naked red head between the great wings
Bear downward staring. I said, "My dear bird, we are wasting time.
These old bones will still work; they are not for you."
.....But how beautiful he looked, gliding down
On those great sails; how beautiful he looked, veering
.....away in the sea-light over the precipice. I tell you
.....solemnly
That I was sorry to have disappointed him. To be eaten
.....by that beak and become part of him, to share those
.....wings and those eyes--
What a sublime end of one's body, what an enskyment;
.....What a life after death.
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