Brilliance

"Mercy"

by Rita Dove

An absolute sound,
this soughing above
the tops of trees.
For the longest while
I couldn't look up, so much
did I long to see the ocean,
rough and whitened.

Such soft ululations,
such a drumroll of feathers!
Yet it was no other weather
than Wind. I looked up; the sky
lay blue as always, Biblical
and terrifying, just where
it was supposed to be.

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