Poetry Friday: Today, by Billy Collins

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Ramona and I were at a park yesterday, and the air was charged with perfection.

Today?

Revel, run, repeat.

Today
by Billy Collins

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

(Read the whole poem here, at The Poetry Foundation.)

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