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This weekend was busy, but it was loved..

                                                Today

BY BILLY COLLINS
If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
           so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

                that it made you want to throw
                           open all the windows in the house

       and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
                  indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

          a day when the cool brick paths
              and the garden bursting with peonies

          seemed so etched in sunlight
                    that you felt like taking

       
         a hammer to the glass paperweight
                 on the living room end table,

                                                                                                             
  releasing the inhabitants
  from their snow-covered                                             cottage



     

















so they could walk out,
    holding hands and squinting
into this larger dome of blue and white,
            well, today is just that kind of day.

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