1 An individual spider webidentifies a species: an order of instinct prevailsthrough all accidents of circumstance,though possibility ishigh along the peripheries ofspiderwebs:you can go allaround…

I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth and go on outover the sea marshes and the brant in baysand…

What do I find right at the center of my interpersonalrelationships: a slightly dispersed but indisputablytinctured core of brutality: go to the hospital the question…

I don’t know somehow it seems sufficientto see and hear whatever coming and going is,losing the self to the victoryof stones and trees,of bending sandpit…

It was May before myattention cameto spring and my word I saidto the southern slopesI’ve missed it, itcame and went beforeI got right to see:…

The blast skimsover the stringof takeoff lightsandrelinquishingplace and timelofts toseparation:the plume, rosesliver, growsacross thehigh-lit eveningsky: by thisMays Landing creekshot pinecones,skinned huckleberrybush, laurelswaths definean unbelievablyparticular stop.

I have a life that did not become,that turned aside and stopped,astonished:I hold it in me like a pregnancy oras on my lap a childnot…

The drop seeps wholefrom boulder-lichenor ledge moss and drops, joining, to trickle,run, fall, dash,sprawl in held deeps, to rush shallows, spillthin through heights,but then, edging,…

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,wonderful: I’m surprised half the time:ground up fine, I puff if a pebble stirs: I’m nervous: my moarality’s intricate:…

When the crowlands, thetip of the sprung spruce bough weighsso low, thesystem so friction-free, the bobbing lastsway past anyinterest in the subject.