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Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
          placed solid, by hands
In coice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
          in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
          riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
          straying planets,
These poems, people,
          lost ponies with
Dragging saddles--
          and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
          four-dimensional
Game of Go.
          ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
          a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
          with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
          all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.


Submitted by Angela

Added: 1 Apr 2002 | Last Read: 8 Sep 2026 11:08 PM | Viewed: 8651 times

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