<p>A mechanical toy horse with a whirling dancer on his back canters across the floor. While she stays the same, he morphs into a mythic creature with stars for his eyes. And when he connects with the poet, they find they both have "formal, melancholy" souls.</p>

A mechanical toy horse with a whirling dancer on his back canters across the floor. While she stays the same, he morphs into a mythic creature with stars for his eyes. And when he connects with the poet, they find they both have "formal, melancholy" souls.

Elizabeth Bishop, "Cirque d'Hiver"

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, on this bookmarked journey through some of the best lyric poetry in English . I've got a passion for small, evocative poems. I'd like to share that with out--as well as those poems, of course! Together, we'll encounter the core things that make us human: love, the inner life, the emotions, our notion of purpose, and our relationship with the natural world around us. Join me. We humans are made for each other!

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Elizabeth Bishop, "Cirque d'Hiver"

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