To Look at Anything

To look at any thing,

If you would know that thing,

You must look at it long:

To look at this green and say,

"I have seen spring in these

Woods," will not do—you must

Be the thing you see:

You must be the dark snakes of

Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,

You must enter in

To the small silences between

The leaves,

You must take your time

And touch the very peace

They issue from.