Tuesday, May 22, 2007

On Desolate Fields


after William Carlos Williams

*

The vastness of the sky
is not something for me,

or for what I make of it.
I’m simply too invested in

those bunny-shaped clouds
to ever renounce my faith

in Frith, nor his ability
to see into my burrow.

I should tell you a story:
it is set in a thicket around

two hours after midnight,
where a thousand winds

scattered a rabbit warren
to all ends of the sky

until the fields resembled
the thinness of rain.

No comments: