ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 7
MAIN THEMES
consciousness of loss
willingness not just to say goodbye
but to be goodbye
that is a life lived in the shape of a wave
of the hand towards that whose place
is now becoming elsewhere
intoxication and sobriety each
in the place of the other
not wilderness but the borders of cultivation
and what lies just beyond
a place of satisfaction where
no one else sees the wind's play with the moment
the wild grasses and stiff weeds coming up
solitude the hidden place
old log to sit on and
a stone or spiderweb the eye rests itself with