Everything sings
in snowy stillness
in marble wonder,
in formal myth,
believed because
impossible,
believed as only
a poem can be,
the anti-fact
of a holy spore
spreading the Word
unsaid before.
Collected Poems (1960)
Everything sings
in snowy stillness
in marble wonder,
in formal myth,
believed because
impossible,
believed as only
a poem can be,
the anti-fact
of a holy spore
spreading the Word
unsaid before.
Collected Poems (1960)