#Americans
When I was young the silk of my mind hard as a peony head unfurled and wind bloomed the parachute:
This is just a place: we go around, distanced, yearly in a star’s atmosphere, turning daily into and out of
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like a pregnancy o… as on my lap a child
You think the ridge hills flowing,… with ups and downs will, though, building constancy into the black… for each sunset, hold on to you, i… wander, give reality recurrence en…
All afternoon the tree shadows, accelerating, lengthened till sunset
I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a center, the shape things will take to come forth in
The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away.
When the crow lands, the tip of the sprung spruce bough weighs so low, the
The people of my time are passing… wife is baking for a funeral, a 60… died suddenly, when the phone ring… Ruth we care so much about in inte… it was once weddings that came so…
1) An individual spider web identifies a species: an order of instinct prevails through all accidents of circumsta… though possibility is
Motion’s the dead giveaway, eye catcher, the revealing risk: the caterpillar sulls on the hot m… but then, risking, ripples to the… the cricket, startled, leaps the
I said I will find what is lowly and put the roots of my identity down there: each day I’ll wake up and find the lowly nearby,
I don’t know somehow it seems suff… to see and hear whatever coming an… losing the self to the victory of stones and trees, of bending sandpit lakes, crescent
Fall fell: so that’s it for the l… some flurries have whitened the ed… and lawns: time for that, the snow… turkeys and old St. Nick: where a… find something to write about I ha…
It was May before my attention came to spring and my word I said to the southern slopes