Tuesday, September 16, 2025

NINE HORSES

 Billy Collins. NINE HORSES. Random. 2002.

A surprise arrival from the Bookman. My favourite in this collection is "Elk River Falls", in which the water "unbuckled from itself / and plummets, shredded, through the air / into the shadows of a frigid pool, / so calm around the edges, a place / for water to recover from the shock / of falling apart and coming back together..."

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