Swans and Other Poems is a collection of sixty formal poems by Mary Rae published in February of 2013. 

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                    Tabula Rasa

What is this sad and alien world
into which they've come,
with field and sky unclean, and darkened sea?

With a flag of plague unfurled
and slowly beating drum,
the shrinking earth disputes eternity.

Yet, like flowers, children grow
beneath the finite shade,
and every leaf they touch they consecrate.

They rise and stretch their arms to show
how beautifully they're made,
and turn the world into a virgin slate.

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