Stratus

“and the moral of that is—Be what you would seem to be—or, if you’d like it put more simply—never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll (Ch. 9, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

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Crow and the Birds

This is a poem by Ted Hughes-

When the eagle soared clear through a dawn distilling of emerld.

Whenthe curlew trawled in seadusk through a chime of wineglasses

When the swallow swooped through a women’s song in a cavern

And the swift flicked throughthe breath of a violet

When the owl sailed clear of tomorrow’s concscience

And the sparrow preened himself of yesterday’s promise

And the heron laboured clear of the Bessemer upglare

And the bluetit zipped clear of lace panties

And the woodpecker drummed clear of the rotovator and the rose-farm

And the peewit tumbled clear of the laundromat

While bluefinch plumped in the apple bud

And the goldfinch bulbed in the sun

And the wryneck crooked in the moon

And the dipper peered from the dewball

Crow sprawled head-down in the beach-garbage, guzzling a dropped ice-cream.

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