Rita Dove - American Smooth (2004)

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Still, it's embarrassing this happiness
Who's satisfied simply with what's good for us,
When has the ordinary ever been news?

Rita Dove

I didn't notice
how still you'd become until
we had done it
(for two measures?
four?)—achieved flight,
that swift and serene
magnificence,
before the earth
remembered who we were
and brought us down.

Rita Dove