Jeffrey Bilbro shared the following poem via email, and I loved it too much not to pass it on to all of you:
Marginalia (1956), by Richard Wilbur
Things concentrate at the edges; the pond-surface
Is bourne to fish and man and it is spread
In textile scum and damask light, on which
The lily-pads are set;…
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