Saturday, May 29, 2010

If It All Went Up in Smoke


that smoke

would remain


the forever

savage country poem's light borrowed


light of the landscape and one's footprints praise


from distance

in the close

crowd all


that is strange the sources


the wells the poem begins


neither in word

nor meaning but the small

selves haunting


us in the stones and is less


always than that help me I am

of that people the grass


blades touch


and touch in their small


distances the poem

begins


-George Oppen



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