Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?
Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?
Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
The play of shine and shade on trees as the supple boughs wag,
The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
The play of shine and shade on trees as the supple boughs wag,
The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
The sound of the belched words of my voice….words loosed to the eddies of the wind,
The sound of the belched words of my voice….words loosed to the eddies of the wind,
Echoes, ripped, and buzzed whispers….loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,
My respiration and inspiration….the beating of my heart….
The passing of blood and air through my lungs,
Echoes, ripped, and buzzed whispers….loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,
My respiration and inspiration….the beating of my heart….
The passing of blood and air through my lungs,
distillation….it is odorless,
It is in my mouth forever….I am in love with it,
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
distillation….it is odorless,
It is in my mouth forever….I am in love with it,
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease….observing a spear of summer grass.
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease….observing a spear of summer grass.