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Watching an Eagle

by Fred Cogswell

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73 pages

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ISBN 0-88887-210-4
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ISBN 0-88887-208-2

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The Phoenix-Fire
The phoenix-fire burns with the mind´s cold rage
Consuming flesh and blood to residue,
Black words that lie, cold ash upon the page;

But ash has life enough to re-engage
New flesh and blood in what their time should do.
The phoenix-fire burns with the mind´s cold rage

As, captured by contagion, men assuage
Old madnesses with new forms poured into
Black words that lie, cold ash upon the page.

It matters not at all if we be sage
Or neutral nothing to the learned few,
The phoenix-fire burns with the mind´s cold rage.

Fanned by a spirit-wind, age after age
Finds itself mortal and is charred down to
Black words that lie, cold ash upon the page.

So in their turns the generations stage
Their own death-flames that kindle flames anew:
The pheonix-fire burns with the mind´s cold rage Black words that lie, cold ash upon the page.
Copyright © by Borealis Press Ltd. and Fred Cogswell,
1991 - 2001.

Other Borealis Press titles by Fred Cogswell:

With Vision Added (2000)
A Double Question (1999)
Folds (1997)
The Trouble With Light (1996)
As I See It (1994)
In My Own Growing (1993)
In Praise of Older Music (1992)
When the Right Light Shines (1992)
Black and White Tapestry (1989)
The Best Notes Merge (1988)

About the Author

Recently awarded the Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English-language literature by the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, Fred Cogswell is widely known as once editor of The Fiddlehead and publisher of Fiddlehead Poetry Books, as a leading critic, and a translator, including The Complete Poems Emile Nelligan. His own poetry has been much published and translated abroad.


Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Cogswell, Fred, 1917 -
Watching an Eagle


ISBN 0-88887-208-2 (bound) - ISBN 0-88887-210-4 (pbk.)
I. Title. 
PS8555.O3W38 1991  C811´.54  C90-090538-7
PR9199.3.C64W38 1991

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Updated: February 18, 2001.


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