A. R. Ammons Green Poems

  • 1.
    You'll rejoice at how many kinds of shit there are:
    gosling shit (which J. Williams said something
    was as green as), fish shit (the generality), trout

    ...
  • 2.
    Silver will lie where she lies
    sun-out, whatever turning the world does,
    longeared in her ashen, earless,
    floating world:
    ...
  • 3.
    I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning
    to the sea,
    then turned right along
    the surf
    ...
  • 4.
    I said I will find what is lowly
    and put the roots of my identity
    down there:
    each day I'll wake up
    ...
  • 5.
    I don't know somehow it seems sufficient
    to see and hear whatever coming and going is,
    losing the self to the victory
    of stones and trees,
    ...
Total 5 Green Poems by A. R. Ammons

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