{HHS English Pre-AP} Poem-A-Day: Barbara Ras, A Book Said Dream and I Do

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	May 2, 2010 Today's poem is from The Last Skin, published by Penguin. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Read more about this book. Related Poems • Dream Song 1 by John Berryman • Dream Variations by Langston Hughes • Dreaming About My Father by Ed Ochester You can unsubscribe from our Poem-A-Day emails at anytime—either completely, or until next April. Academy of American Poets 584 Broadway Suite 604 New York, NY 10012 212-274-0343 aca...@poets.org		A Book Said Dream and I Do by Barbara Ras There were feathers and the light that passed through feathers. There were birds that made the feathers and the sun that made the light. The feathers of the birds made the air soft, softer than the quiet in a cocoon waiting for wings, stiller than the stare of a hooded falcon. But no falcons in this green made by the passage of parents. No, not parents, parrots flying through slow sleep casting green rays to light the long dream. If skin, dew would have drenched it, but dust hung in space like the stoppage of time itself, which, after dancing with parrots, had said, Thank you. I'll rest now. It's not too late to say the parrot light was thick enough to part with a hand, and the feathers softening the path, fallen after so much touching of cheeks, were red, hibiscus red split by veins of flight now at the end of flying. Despite the halt of time, the feathers trusted red and believed indolence would fill the long dream, until the book shut and time began again to hurt. Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend

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