- 1. Elegy For A Jet Pilot
The blast skims
over the string
of takeoff lights
and
...
- 2. Identity
1
An individual spider web
identifies a species:
...
- 3. Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity
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
...
- 4. Corsons Inlet
I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning
to the sea,
then turned right along
the surf
...
- 5. In Memoriam Mae Noblitt
This is just a place:
we go around, distanced,
yearly in a star's
...
- 6. When I Was Young The Silk
When I was young the silk
of my mind
hard as a peony head
unfurled
...
- 7. The City Limits
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold
itself but pours its abundance without selection into every
nook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when you consider
...
- 8. 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
...
by A. R. Ammons
