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Before Dark by Wendell Berry | Sunday, November 12, 2017 | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

Before Dark by Wendell Berry | Sunday, November 12, 2017 | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

Update: 2017-11-12
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From the porch at dusk I watched

a kingfisher wild in flight

he could only have made for joy.


He came down the river, splashing

against the water’s dimming face

like a skipped rock, passing


on down out of sight. And still

I could hear the splashes

farther and farther away


as it grew darker. He came back

the same way, dusky as his shadow,

sudden beyond the willows.


The splashes went on out of hearing.

It was dark then. Somewhere

the night had accommodated him


—at the place he was headed for

or where, led by his delight,

he came.


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Before Dark by Wendell Berry | Sunday, November 12, 2017 | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

Before Dark by Wendell Berry | Sunday, November 12, 2017 | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

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