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"Today" by Billy Collins
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"Today" by Billy Collins
If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze
that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house
and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,
a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies
seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking
a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,
releasing the inhabitants
from their show-covered cottage
so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting
into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.
Freedom
Release
Fresh air
Breaking barriers
"throw open all the windows"
"unlatch the door"
"bursting"
Abundance
Breaking open
"bursting with peonies"
"peonies"
Disregard of consequence
The
Good Life
Connections
and
Significance
Other Works
Appreciation
Connection
Freedom
Candide
Narnia
"taking a hammer to the glass paperweight on the living room end table"
Rejection of formality
Breaking out
World
Openness
Fresh air
Connection
Unity
Strength
Friendship
Love
"larger dome of blue and white"
"holding hands"
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