The Song
What has the rain,
The wind, to do with two words
Two names going up a hill?
Wind
Leaning grass together
Bending moons caught in twigs on water
Teasing coats around slacks
Wind-leaves teasing cats around corners
The tree shivered wind-leaves down
The leaf I found
How can I share it with a word?
II
Boy with sand shine hair,
For gathering words to color the air
And watch the light shine through,
Let’s go listen to the light
Ripple and pull at the edge of the sand
In the sky shine by the sea.
There after dark, once, the movements began
Between the fire and fog
Quick shadows on the sand
On the fog on the fire
Fell free in the sound by the sea
In the sound there the movement the air
There the air sound the sea.
III
In their violent union
There
Skaters
There
Swift circles
There
Spinning
Red silk black air
Bright wind over shine.
1965-1966 Diablo Valley
The wind, to do with two words
Two names going up a hill?
Wind
Leaning grass together
Bending moons caught in twigs on water
Teasing coats around slacks
Wind-leaves teasing cats around corners
The tree shivered wind-leaves down
The leaf I found
How can I share it with a word?
II
Boy with sand shine hair,
For gathering words to color the air
And watch the light shine through,
Let’s go listen to the light
Ripple and pull at the edge of the sand
In the sky shine by the sea.
There after dark, once, the movements began
Between the fire and fog
Quick shadows on the sand
On the fog on the fire
Fell free in the sound by the sea
In the sound there the movement the air
There the air sound the sea.
III
In their violent union
There
Skaters
There
Swift circles
There
Spinning
Red silk black air
Bright wind over shine.
1965-1966 Diablo Valley