Peculiar
that swan should mean a sound?
I'd thought of gods and power, and wounds.
But here in the curious quiet this one has
settled
down.
All
day the barking dogs were kept at bay.
Better than dogs, a single swan, they say,
will keep all such malignant force away
and
so preserve a calm, make pond a swelling
lake--
sound through the silent grove a shattering
spate
of resonances, jarring the mind awake.
The 2River View, 2_2 (Winter 1998)
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