- 1. Elegy For A Jet Pilot
The blast skims
over the string
of takeoff lights
and
...
- 2. Mule Song
Silver will lie where she lies
sun-out, whatever turning the world does,
longeared in her ashen, earless,
floating world:
...
- 3. Cut The Grass
The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I'm surprised half the time:
ground up fine, I puff if a pebble stirs:
...
- 4. Rapids
Fall's leaves are redder than
spring's flowers, have no pollen,
and also sometimes fly, as the wind
schools them out or down in shoals
...
- 5. Rivulose
You think the ridge hills flowing, breaking
with ups and downs will, though,
building constancy into the black foreground
...
by A. R. Ammons
