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Yellow II | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. Yellow most often has been,. Of its yesteryears,. A near and common affront: fear. Somesuch yellows have come and gone,. Others, less certain,. Have left no easy everyday sign. Once, a mustard field adrone with heat. Once, forsythia’s fell-and-swoop underfoot. Once, a drowse of butterflies flittering up. They are owned by no common sign. Yesterday, yesterday —. What shall I make of your yellow roses?
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Lavendar | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. Let’s keep it a clump,. A hump in a dry dry summer. No need ever, to bother. To water or weed it,. Grey as grass, it. It grows like a past. We could do better. We could spade it up, get it out. Plant stones and pebbles to hold. Some truly decorative,. Let’s not, let’s keep it? Crack or break or mash or mull. Rather stiff-stuck ugly fragance,. Scatter, we really should do something.
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Poems 1950-1990 | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. Joel Swift, April 2014. 2014 The Swift Fund for the Arts. Dorothy Zackrisson Swift was born 17 April 1928 in Toledo,. Ohio, the child of Swedish-American parents. She grew up in. Toledo (with the exception of a long stay in Sweden in the late. 1930’s), attending McKinley School, Devilbiss High School, and. The University of Toledo (BA, 1951), where she studied philo-. Until the birth of her third son.
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Yellow III | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. Q: What is there? A: Law, says the gardener,. Reflecting — upon yellow, for example —. It would seem that there’s much more to living. Than tradition and possible truth. Wordsworth’s daffodils, for example,. Although probably the first to have been stated. To have been seen. By an inward reflective eye,. Do raise such questions:. Which is possible truth? About this, that, or any other finite thing?
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August | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. Along with a vegetable view —. And what’s back there. Instituted a fool,. When all’s said and done, is here. No gift horse either, when all is here. As a-freak, or fenced off, or else —. What falls or floats or follows, and falters,. Is here playing dead. Oft-times fretting: a-far as thunder? And other times wondering: false sport’s spurt? Although it is fulsome here. Green and round and rife,.
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February | 2016 | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. Monthly Archives: February 2016. Bears Dance for Anne. My mother always loved children, their songs, their words, their drawings. Not just her children, any child lit her up. She loved their questions, and this one posed by the daughter of a dear friend became part 2 of “Ten Hangtown Blues” – JTS. BEARS DANCE FOR ANNE. This bear walks into the woods. Now just how far can he walk? To and fro,. This en...
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VIOLET | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. Violets don’t, violets don’t. Proliferate as people,. Violets need to think. To shrink. Violets simply needn’t shrink. Too soon, but violets do. Need each year to multiply —. O simply, quick! To multiply so simply, quick,. The pace of a path, the width of a wood,. Don’t violets need each year? Of course they do. Here, among houses,. They’re already as common as course. This entry was posted in Colors.
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Yellow III | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. Q: What is there? A: Law, says the gardener,. Reflecting — upon yellow, for example —. It would seem that there’s much more to living. Than tradition and possible truth. Wordsworth’s daffodils, for example,. Although probably the first to have been stated. To have been seen. By an inward reflective eye,. Do raise such questions:. Which is possible truth? About this, that, or any other finite thing?
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A Little Tune for Vanya | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. A Little Tune for Vanya. A LITTLE TUNE FOR VANYA. This Numbat in his Wandoo tree. Eats termites only,. Sleeps in a honed down. Leaps like an anthromorphic idea. From limb unto limb. L0 thousand termites a day! With 2 native enemies only,. And never any bite or fight,. And little to say. Then safely asleep again,. Within his proper pragmatic splay —. Until l0 thousand termites again —.
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Flora | Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry
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Dorothy Zackrisson Swift : Poetry. All Content (c) 2014 Swift Fund for the Arts. A Little Tune for Vanya. One of Dorothy’s interests, to say the least, was the garden. Her rose garden at one time had over 200 different plants, mainly old roses. But she also loved the many other species of flora, and wrote many poems centered on the garden. A partial list is below, and will be posted here in time:. After Eve: Pomegranates, Quince. A, Pear, Tree, For, Paul, Pr’aps. This Gift of a Redbud Tree.