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Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
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I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.
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The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.
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And A Blackbird Are One
05:08
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A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.
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Or Just After
01:51
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I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
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Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.
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The Women About You
06:07
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O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?
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But I Know, Too
02:55
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I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.
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Of One Of Many Circles
03:58
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When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.
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At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.
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Once, A Fear Pierced Him
02:28
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He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.
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River Is, Blackbird Must
04:44
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The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.
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Evening All Afternoon
08:27
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It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
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Roslyn Steer
Roslyn Steer is a musician based in Coolyduff, Co. Cork.
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