Thursday, February 28, 2008
Borrowings (poem)
(image from source)
Borrowings
Imagine.
A friend with a recorder
puts it on her windowsill
and captures the song
of a mockingbird
in her garden.
It sounds first like this winged one,
then that (do birds have names?),
on and on,
always cheerful and
trilling away,
never mind the real creators
of these stolen melodies.
Some people
want to track the primary source,
the original begetters
as it were
of these pilfered salutations.
Others just want to listen,
catch the inner music.
Echo these soaring tones.
Dorothy Walters
February 25, 2008
To hear the actual sound of the recording, go to this site created by N. M. Rai, who has contributed so much to this blog. Thanks, Naggie.
http://h1.ripway.com/chiangsan006/mockingbird.mp3
