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Lorena Babcock Appalachian Heritage, Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 1991, p. 51 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0053 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438565/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:48 GMT from JHU Libraries Winter Heron Winter is a heron In a land where there is only enough snow For a dusting of white Belly feathers under cloudy wings. His movements are spare and rationed. He knows that strength is not freely given In the Silent Season: It must be hoarded, or taken with violence, Speared and swallowed ice-cold. Every year I forget how to come into his stillness, He who dances with rain in his feet. I must let go of green leaves that have become dust. We stand in damp-feathered grayness, Wrapped in ruffled water that he gathers To himself as he calls in his power on the wind. Through shifting mist of heron-shape His eye encircles me: I remember now, and begin at once To sleep and to fly. —Lorena Babcock What This Road Holds Is a long, long walk in the childhood of April The surprise of pink trillium and a Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Spring warbling creeks and the birds
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
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