Stone Villages by Joseph Brodsky ... link->[link]



























The stone-built villages of England.
A cathedral bottled in a pub window.
Cows dispersed across fields.
Monuments to kings.



























A man in a moth-eaten suit
sees a train
off, heading, like everything here, for the sea,
smiles at his daughter, leaving for the East.
A whistle blows.

























And the endless sky over the tiles
grows bluer as swelling birdsong fills.
And the clearer the song is heard,
the smaller the bird.




















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