Poems in Three Parts

1

Oh on an early morning I think I shall live forever!

I am wrapped in my joyful flesh

As the grass is wrapped in its clouds of green.

2

Rising from a bed where I dreamt

Of long rides past castles and hot coals

The sun lies happily on my knees;

I have suffered and survived the night

Bathed in dark water like any blade of grass.

3

The strong leaves of the box-elder tree

Plunging in the wind call us to disappear

Into the wilds of the universe

Where we shall sit at the foot of a plant

And live forever like the dust.