And Nothing To Look Backward

I Hope To Leave Behind A Few Poems It Will Be Hard To Get Rid Of.

Freedom Is When You Are Easy In The Harness.

The Figure A Poem Makes. It Begins In Delight And Ends In Wisdom... In A Clarification Of Life - Not Necessarily A Great Clarification, Such As Sects And Cults Are Founded On, But In A Momentary Stay Against Confusion.

We Get Twitted Now And Then On How We Made This Country. Well, We Took The Whole Business, Of Course. It's Not Just That Corner That We Took From Mexico. When We Got It All Together, We Got A Very Shapely Country-the Best Continental Cut In All The World, Between The Two Oceans And In The Right Temperature Zone.

Now Close The Windows And Hush All The Fields: If The Trees Must, Let Them Silently Toss.