Eyesight

Portrait of A.R. Ammons
A.R. Ammons 1926–2001

It was May before my attention came to spring and

my word I said to the southern slopes I've

missed it, it came and went before I got right to see:

don't worry, said the mountain, try the later northern slopes or if

you can climb, climb into spring: but said the mountain

it's not that way with all things, some that go are gone

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