Billy Collins - The Art of Drowning (1995)

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But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

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I love the sound of the bone against the plate and the fortress-like look of it lying before me in a moat of risotto, the meat soft as the leg of an angel who has lived a purely airborne existence.

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But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

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It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.

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But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.

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Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted house and to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.

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