You think the ridge hills flowing, breakingwith ups and downs will, though,building constancy into...
A. R. Ammons
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A. R. Ammons was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University who lived from 1926 to 2001. He was known for his use of free verse, nature imagery, and transcendentalist themes in his poetry. He won several prestigious awards, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. |
This is just a place:we go around, distanced,yearly in a star’s atmosphere, turningdaily into...
When I was young the silkof my mindhard as a peony headunfurledand wind bloomed...
I know if I find you I will have to leave the earthand go...
Fall’s leaves are redder thanspring’s flowers, have no pollen,and also sometimes fly, as the...
The reeds giveway to the wind and givethe wind away
I don’t know somehow it seems sufficientto see and hear whatever coming and going...
The reason to be autonomous is to stand there,a cleared instrument, ready to act,...
The drop seeps wholefrom boulder-lichenor ledge moss and drops, joining, to trickle,run, fall, dash,sprawl...
I look for the waythings will turnout spiralling from a center,the shapethings will take...