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July 19 July Penance - 2 for the Price of OneThe Meaning of Existence
Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence
trees, plants, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe
Even this fool of a body
lives in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
of my talkative mind
- Les Murray
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
near
the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnanounced
this was
Icarus drowning.
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