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Poetry

Hunting Swans: Annaghmakerrig, Ireland

by Jeri Kroll
April 2006, no. 280

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Some day maybe I’ll catch them.

Across the quivering lake they float,

a trio of indistinct shapes,

but they are swans,

that much I know.

 


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