Motion’s the dead giveaway,eye catcher, the revealing risk:the caterpillar sulls on the hot macadam but then, risking, ripples to the bush:the cricket, startled, leaps thequickest arc: the earthwrom, casting, nudges a grassblade, and the sharp robinstrikes: sound’s the otherannouncement: the redbird lands in an elm branch and tests the air withcheeps for an answering, reassuringcheep,…
Their Sex Life By A. R. Ammons
One failure onTop of another
The Confirmers By A. R. Ammons
The saints are gathering at the realplaces, trying tough skin on sharpconscience,endurance in the hot spots-searching out to define, come upagainst, mouththe bitterest bit:you can…
The City Limits By A. R. Ammons
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withholditself but pours its abundance without selection into everynook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when…
Still By A. R. Ammons
I said I will find what is lowlyand put the roots of my identitydown there:each day I’ll wake upand find the lowly nearby,a handy focus…
So I Said I Am Ezra By A. R. Ammons
So I said I am Ezraand the wind whipped my throatgaming for the sounds of my voiceI listened to the windgo over my head and…
Small Song By A. R. Ammons
The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away.
Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity By A. R. Ammons
You’ll rejoice at how many kinds of shit there are:gosling shit (which J. Williams said somethingwas as green as), fish shit (the generality), trout shit,…
Rogue Elephant By A. R. Ammons
The reason to be autonomous is to stand there,a cleared instrument, ready to act, to search the moral realm and actual conditions for whatneeds to…
Rivulose By A. R. Ammons
You think the ridge hills flowing, breakingwith ups and downs will, though,building constancy into the black foreground for each sunset, hold on to you, if…