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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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The Billy Collins poem describes a lovely spring day, perfect in it's quality of weather, sun, and flowers, It is a joyous poem! The paperweight and release of the inhabitants could be a metaphor for spring releasing the world from winter and releasing people from a life indoors.

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What if the lovely spring day is a funeral day for a family? People and loved ones die on beautiful, sunny days all the time.The two images of a cemetery and a funeral procession are on what appears to be pleasant days. The snow globe/paperweight contains the picture of the deceased. Perhaps a whole family was killed in an accident.