Sunday, April 18, 2010

It Stands to Reason


Just as that fledgling starts

To leave, its branch begins

An imperceptible trembling.

4 comments:

  1. Another masterpiece. And when I come here, the same thing happens when I start to read.

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  2. As if that branch cannot bear to be left or does it tremble in honour of the exodus?

    Wonderful poem, Vassilis.

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  3. Like the imperceptible trembling of a parent, sending their offspring out into the world for the first time alone, joy & trembles mixed. Having watched a tiny bird once embark on his first flight from the nest, only to fly headlong into a neighbor's wall and fall, suprised and dazed, down onto the grass (he picked himself up and skitted across the grass, apparently none the worse for his first encounter with autonomy), I understand completely that trembling branch, ha ha. Great poem, Vassilis!

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  4. William,

    Thanks, you old bird--you drop in so often it's a wonder the branch hasn't broken yet!


    Right on, Elisabeth and Annie--I thank you both for going out on this limb for me!

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