Saturday, August 17, 2019

Beach Song / Pearl Andelson Sherry


Beach song

from From a Bay-window

What are they weaving under the water?
They make sheer laces and drag them down.
They ruffle a lawn with a great grieving.
What are they making — what manner of gown?

What are they weaving, caught here,    
Caught there, on the thin-washed blue?
Who is to be married or who is to be buried,
Under the water, under the water?

~~
Pearl Andelson Sherry (1899-1966)
from Poetry, December 1921

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

Pearl Andelson Sherry biography

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