FAS






Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
  placed solid, by hands
In choice 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.
           
 
 
 
Gary Snyder
Riprap
 





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