Spirit of Place: The Great Blue Heron - William Stafford

[Larry Robinson]

Spirit of Place: The Great Blue Heron

 

Out of their loneliness for each other

two reeds, or maybe two shadows, lurch 

forward and become suddenly a life 

lifted from dawn or the rain. It is 

the wilderness come back again, a lagoon 

with our city reflected in its eye.

We live by faith in such presences.

 
It is a test for us, that thin

but real, undulating figure that promises,

“If you keep faith I will exist

at the edge, where your vision joins

the sunlight and the rain: heads in the light,

feet that go down in the mud where the truth is.”


	- William Stafford


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