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Last Night's Dream
Denise Levertov
I sing tree, making green
school after school of leaf-fish
flicker between the shade and sunlight
in nets of branch,
urging the students to see, to see
and one says: I like
the brown tree. So I look:
she has conjured
one of those scrawny northern cedars,
arbor vitae, dead or alive, one can't tell,
earth-brown, sprouting
bits of dry fern-frond from random twigs,
disregarded;
and this tree, behold,
glows from within;
haloed in visible
invisible gold.
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