Horse or dog could not shoot,
seeing two sides to everything.
Fish, who never shut their eyes,
can swim on their sides, and see
two worlds: blunt dark below;
above, the daggering light.
Round as a burr, the eye
its whole head, the housefly
sees in a whizzing circle.
Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind trained
forward, hope to shoot and hit
- if they can find it -
the backward-speeding hole
in the Cyclops face of the future.
Source: New and Selected Things Taking Place
I like the poems of May Swenson very much. It is unique in content nad style. The poet's choice of words and subject makes the readers to read and understand her poems.
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