Ophelia
Ophelia's green hair flowing in the Avon Looking out from swimming eyes The bridge collapsing into suicides Her skirts billowing in the mists.
I laugh.
The magpie flies.
The yellow primrose.
Mike Stone
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Ophelia's green hair flowing in the Avon Looking out from swimming eyes The bridge collapsing into suicides Her skirts billowing in the mists.
I laugh.
The magpie flies.
The yellow primrose.
The poem begins with a familiar image: Ophelia, the drowned young woman from Shakespeare's *Hamlet*, floating in the river Avon with green hair and "swimming eyes." The picture is beautiful but unsettling.
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