Rivulose

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

You think the ridge hills flowing, breaking with ups and downs will, though, building constancy into the black foreground

for each sunset, hold on to you, if dreams wander, give reality recurrence enough to keep an image clear, but then you realize, time

going on, that time's residual like the last ice age's cool still in the rocks, averaged maybe with the cool of the age before, that

not only are you not being held onto but where else could time do so well without you, what is your time where so much time is saved?

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