Sunday, February 22, 2009

Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters

A top recommendation! I love this book. A collection of a Peoria, IL's epitaphs. I find different ones to love every time I read it.

"Jennie McGrew

Not, where the stairway turns in the dark,
A hooded figure, shriveled under a flowing cloak!
Not yellow eyes in the room at night,
Staring out from a surface of cobweb gray!
And not the flap of a condor wing,
When the roar of life in your ears begins
As a sound heard never before!
But on a sunny afternoon,
By a country road,
Where purple rag-weeds bloom along a straggling fence,
And the field is gleaned, and the air is still,
To see against the sun-light something black,
Like a blot with an iris rim -
That is the sign to eyes of a second sight...
And that I saw!"

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