#Americans
Out of the dry days through the dusty leaves far across the valley those few notes never heard here before
How long ago the day is when at last I look at it with the time it has taken to be there still in it now in the transparent light
It is March and black dust falls… Soon I will be gone The tall spirit who lodged here ha… Left already On the avenues the colorless threa…
So gradual in those summers was th… of the age it seemed that the long… when the stars faded over the moun… leaving us even as the birds woke… glittered in the webs it appeared…
Duporte the roofer that calm voice those sure hands gentling weathere… into new generations or half of him rising through a roof like some sea spirit from a wave
What is the head A. Ash What are the eyes A. The wells have fallen in and h… Inhabitants
Now that you have caught sight of the other side of darkness the invisible side so that you can tell it is rising
Naturally it is night. Under the overturned lute with its One string I am going my way Which has a strange sound. This way the dust, that way the du…
While I think of them they are gr… after the distances they have foll… all the way to the end for the fir… tracing a memory they did not have until they set out to remember it
With what stillness at last you appear in the valley your first sunlight reaching down to touch the tips of a few high leaves that do not stir
Moored to the same ring: The hour, the darkness and I, Our compasses hooded like falcons. Now the memory of you comes aching… With a wash of broken bits which n…
In the long evening of April thro… Bayle’s two sheep dogs sail down t… for the flock a moment before he a… a stub of a man rolling as he appr… smiling and smiling and his dogs a…
When you go away the wind clicks a… The painters work all day but at s… Showing the black walls The clock goes back to striking th… That has no place in the years
Gray whale Now that we are sinding you to Th… That great god Tell him That we who follow you invented fo…
My friend says I was not a good s… you understand I say yes I understand he says I did not go to see my parents very often you k…