Let the snake wait under  
  his weed  
  and the writing  
  be of words, slow and quick, sharp  
  to strike, quiet to wait,  
  sleepless.  
  — through metaphor to reconcile  
  the people and the stones.  
  Compose. (No ideas  
  but in things) Invent!  
  Saxifrage is my flower that splits  
  the rocks.
"A Sort of a Song" - The Wedge (1944)























