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MAGNOLIA

by

Ronald Duncan (1978)

From where these birds

Which perch upon the bough

Leafless, but for their white wings

Of ivory or alabaster

Now furled, so spruce, so still?

What dark wind swept them?

Across which seas?

Drawn by what instincts?

Migrating from where to where?

Or are these not birds, nor flowers,

But hands in prayer

Clenched in brief hope

Wrung with long despair?

Reprinted courtesy Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation