A Trick of Sunlight: Poems

Happiness

Happiness The weirdest entry in our lexicon, The word whose referent we never know— A river valley from a Book of Hours Somewhere in southern Europe long ago. Or once, to someone walking by the Loire, A trick of sunlight on a summer’s day Revealed the Virgin in rococo clouds: The peasants in the fields knelt down to pray. 6 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...