A. R. Ammons Away Poems
- 1. In Memoriam Mae Noblitt
This is just a place:
we go around, distanced,
yearly in a star's
... - 2. Small Song
The reeds give way to the wind
and give the wind away.
... - 3. Rogue Elephant
The reason to be autonomous is to stand there,
a cleared instrument, ready to act, to search
the moral realm and actual conditions for what
... - 4. So I Said I Am Ezra
So I said I am Ezra
and the wind whipped my throat
gaming for the sounds of my voice
I listened to the wind
... - 5. Easter Morning
I have a life that did not become,
that turned aside and stopped,
astonished:
I hold it in me like a pregnancy or
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