Plunge beneath the ledge of coral Where the silt of sunlight drifts Like dust that settles toward a floor — As slow as that: feel the lifting Surge that rustles white above But here is only movement deep As breathing: watch the reef fish hover Dancing in their silver sleep Around their stone, enchanted tree.


The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish - The Reef Fisher, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1952

Archibald MacLeish Quotes

Plunge beneath the ledge of coral Where the silt of sunlight drifts Like dust that settles toward a floor — As slow as that: feel the lifting Surge ...

Plunge beneath the ledge of coral Where the silt of sunlight drifts Like dust that settles toward a floor — As slow as that: feel the lifting Surge ...

Plunge beneath the ledge of coral Where the silt of sunlight drifts Like dust that settles toward a floor — As slow as that: feel the lifting Surge ...

Plunge beneath the ledge of coral Where the silt of sunlight drifts Like dust that settles toward a floor — As slow as that: feel the lifting Surge ...