David Malouf Quotes

Shy Gifts
Shy Gifts That Come To Us From A World That May Not
even Know We're Here. Windfalls, Scantlings.
Breaking A Bough Like Breathy Flute-notes, A Row
of Puffed White Almond-blossom, The Word In Hiding
among Newsprint That Has Other News To Tell.
In A Packed Aisle At The Supermarket, I Catch
the Eye Of A Wordless One-year-old, Whale-blue,
unblinking. It Looks Right Through Me, Recognising
what? Wisely Mistrustful But Unwisely
impulsive As We Are, We Take These Givings
as Ours And Meant For Us - Why Else So Leap
to Receive Them? - And Go Home Lighter
of Step To The Table Set, The Bed Turned Down, The Book
laid Open Under The Desk-lamp, Pages Astream
with Light Like Angels' Wings, Arched For Take-off.

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