I knew a woman, lovely in her bones
When small birds sighed she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
From Theodore Roethke, I Knew a Woman
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43331
Photo credit: Thomas Hawk http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01/30472346812
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That’s an action photo, fast moving too.
Leslie
I found it hard to find something that captured the idea of the poem – still not quite right….
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