Eyesight

Eyesight

It was May before my
attention came
to spring and

my word I said
to the southern slopes
I've

missed it, it
came and went before
I got right to see:

don't worry, said the mountain,
try the later northern slopes
or if

you can climb, climb
into spring: but
said the mountain

it's not that way
with all things, some
that go are gone

--A. R. Ammons, The Selected Poems, 1951-1977, W.W. Norton, 1977
 

 

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A.R. Ammons ;

Beautiful , Sue . Thnx.

lovely poem. it reminds me

lovely poem. it reminds me of how i keep forgetting to collect poplar buds for oil until suddenly there are leaves and i just want to go to the arctic to see if there's still time.

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