Of course, I believe in magic, so when Papa promises there’s water, I follow him. Viburnum petals, like a false surrender, brighten the brown
after The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons Today your book arrived, one book in two slab oblongs (a ball-buster), and I had to
In the shadows I became a stranger drowning in a river. A stranger drowning. In a river. I became. In the shadows I