Fw: [Panhala] Encounter -- Czeslaw Milosz

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This seemed especially right today

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Encounter

We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness.

And suddenly a hare ran across the road. One of us pointed to it with his hand.

That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive, Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.

O my love, where are they, where are they going? The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles. I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.

~ Czeslaw Milosz ~

(The Collected Poems 1931 - 1987,

translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee)

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we are cold and getting colder - no snow in SW Oklahoma

To: MSersLife Sent: Wed, January 6, 2010 11:59:44 AMSubject: Re: Fw: [Panhala] Encounter -- Czeslaw Milosz

Looks like it does outside here right now...except in city.Jolie