Weathering
A day without rain is like
a day without sunshine
Success Story
I never got on good
relations with the world
first I had nothing
the world wanted
then the world had
nothing I wanted
Substantial Planes
It doesn't
matter
to me
if
poems mean
nothing:
there's no
floor
to the
universe
and yet
one
walks the
floor.
Small Song
The reeds give
way to the
wind and give
the wind away
Pebble's Story
Wearing away
wears
wearing
away away
The Scour
It was so windy
last night the snow
got down nowhere
except up against something.
Reading
It's nice
after dinner
to walk down to
the beach
and find
the biggest
thing on earth
relatively calm.
Camels
I like nonliterary,
uneducated people,
beach riffraff:
they are so aloof and
unengageable: you
can rope them with
no interest of your own.
Stills
I have nowhere
to go and
nowhere to go
when I get
back from there
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A. R. Ammons
The Really Short Poems
Norton 1990
