#AmericanWriters
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
I went for a walk over the dunes a… to the sea, then turned right along the surf rounded a naked headland
After the event the rockslide realized, in a still diversity of completion… grain and fissure, declivity
When I was young the silk of my mind hard as a peony head unfurled and wind bloomed the parachute:
A day without rain is like a day without sunshine
There is now not a single leaf on the cherry tree: except when the jay plummets in, lights, and, in pure clarity, squalls:
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
The drop seeps whole from boulder-lichen or ledge moss and drops, joining, to trickle, run, fall, dash,
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…
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,
When the crow lands, the tip of the sprung spruce bough weighs so low, the
Silver will lie where she lies sun-out, whatever turning the worl… longeared in her ashen, earless, floating world: indifferent to sores and greengage…
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…
I know if I find you I will have… and go on out over the sea marshes and the brant… and over the hills of tall hickory and over the crater lakes and cany…
The wonderful workings of the worl… wonderful: I’m surprised half the… ground up fine, I puff if a pebble… I’m nervous: my moarality’s intric… a squash blossom dies, I feel with…