#but something abt my mental image of that pome always makes me think of like. wet white bedsheets hanging translucent in dawn light | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

aeide-thea · 1 year

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i only ever experience dawn from the wrong side but even so there's always something at least a little heart-lifting abt the imperceptible yet inexorable paling of the world (ey says, having managed to describe it in a way that instead makes it sound like a fascist social manifesto) and the first determined little bird calling out like a newspaper guy <3

#i was like 'it's like that one richard wilbur pome!' but then i looked up the richard wilbur pome in question and. memory lies actually #but something abt my mental image of that pome always makes me think of like. wet white bedsheets hanging translucent in dawn light #except like. in the courtyard of a city apartment building where no one would ever hang sheets #with pigeons flying up because—who knows why. because the image needs fat sweet little birds with their dirty-dove wings.#just like. the grimy world turns on and the light still—still!—rises over it #and we lift our faces damp and hopeful‚ new-washed by morning #…hopkins god's grandeur sestet basically.#or like. plagal cadence but emotionally.#moodblogging #i guess lmao

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