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centerYou are standing at the edge… at twilight when something begins to sing, like a waterfall pouring down
At Blackwater Pond the tossed wat… after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls…
In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird with its white eyes
She steps into the dark swamp where the long wait ends. The secret slippery package drops to the weeds. She leans her long neck and tongue…
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.
Fat, black, slick, galloping in the pitch of the waves, in the pearly fields of the sea,
From a single grain they have mult… When you look in the eyes of one you have seen them all. At the edges of highways they pick at limp things.
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
Don’t call this world adorable, or… It’s frisky, and a theater for mor… The eyelash of lightning is neithe… The struck tree burns like a pilla… But the blue rain sinks, straight…
Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, lik… the wings of a moth in the beak of… Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me.
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black b… Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean– the one who has flung herself out…
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
I’d seen their hoofprints in the deep needles and knew they ended the long night under the pines, walking