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Scatterghost, it can’t float away. And the rain, everybody’s brother, won’t help. And the wind all these… flying like ten crazy sisters ever…
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…
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…
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
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.
Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
Fat, black, slick, galloping in the pitch of the waves, in the pearly fields of the sea,
I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories,
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…
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the… to buy me, and snaps the purse shu… when death comes
In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird with its white eyes
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light,