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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YESTERDAY, by RUTH LASHORNE BUNDY
First Line: Swift as a pigeon's wings
Last Line: To her finger ladder, rung by rung.
Subject(s): Past; Pigeons
First Line: Swift as a pigeon's wings
Last Line: To her finger ladder, rung by rung.
Subject(s): Past; Pigeons
Swift as a pigeon's wings
The memory swings,
Back into a high vaulted past
Where silent stands
A child with a dead pigeon
In her hands.
Upon her face
A white stark flash of pain.
Because the beating of a heavy rain,
Had robbed her of a treasured friend
Whose little coral feet had clung
To her finger ladder, rung by rung.
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