Sixty-Eight
Across the river geese arrive by a moon's light,
setting its image dancing beneath trees — and so
we know joy though the world has no use for us.
In “Sixty-Eight,” a speaker watches geese arriving across a river by moonlight. Their motion sets the moon’s reflection dancing beneath the trees, and from that small, luminous scene the speaker draws a quiet conclusion: we can still know joy even when the world has no use for us.
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