Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur…

Octavio Paz
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Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches. ✨ Octavio Paz (1979). A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems, p.51, New Directions Publishing
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