If it All Went Up in Smoke
that smoke
would remain
the forever
savage country poem’s light borrowed
light of the landscape and one’s footprints praise
from distance
in the close
crowd all
that is strange the sources
the wells the poem begins
neither in word
nor meaning but the small
selves haunting
us in the stones and is less
always than that help me I am
of that people the grass
blades touch
and touch in their small
distances the poem
begins
