Grief of Falling Water
For brief as water falling will be death,
and brief as flower falling, or a leaf,
brief as the taking, and the giving, breath;
thus natural, thus brief, my love, is grief.
-Conrad Aiken (1889 - 1973),
And in the Human Heart (1940). Sonnet 6
images © 2000 by Randy Wang
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