A Poem: Eyesight

Trentino, Nothern Italy

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)


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