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Ballad Gerald George Appalachian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 1986, pp. 34-38 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1986.0066 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/440300/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 22:37 GMT from JHU Libraries VIEW OF A HAWK Not just that the act was pure Or the arc of flight a sign, A spanning beyond sense, a grace, Majestic in an empty, open sky; Not because a hawk is beautiful; Not just that the spirit lifts With this loftiness, this bold regency; Not because the soaring of a winged thing Is a singing in the open air, a meaning, A bursting forth from earth; None, none of these was vital To its revelation; Instead here simply shown the bird's own moment: Sharp and singular, A new act fresh, Seen, yes, before, and to be seen again, But here once more a new time to occur— hawk, happening in the universe! —Gerald George If you allowed, oh, one whole day to try to understand some thing, what would it be, my love? (my love, oh ask me why the wildflowers beg and relentless birds perch on one leg and moss repeals a tree) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

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Abstract

Gerald George Appalachian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 1986, pp. 34-38 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1986.0066 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/440300/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 22:37 GMT from JHU Libraries VIEW OF A HAWK Not just that the act was pure Or the arc of flight a sign, A spanning beyond sense, a grace, Majestic in an empty, open sky; Not because a hawk is beautiful; Not just that the spirit lifts With this loftiness, this bold regency; Not because the soaring of a winged thing Is a singing in the open air, a meaning, A bursting forth from earth; None, none of these was vital To its revelation; Instead here simply shown the bird's own moment: Sharp and singular, A new act fresh, Seen, yes, before, and to be seen again, But here once more a new time to occur— hawk, happening in the universe! —Gerald George If you allowed, oh, one whole day to try to understand some thing, what would it be, my love? (my love, oh ask me why the wildflowers beg and relentless birds perch on one leg and moss repeals a tree)

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

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