If You Stay Still, Earth Buries You,

At A Certain Point, You Say To The Woods, To The Sea, To The Mountains, The World, Now I Am Ready. Now I Will Stop And Be Wholly Attentive. You Empty Yourself And Wait, Listening.

If You Stay Still, Earth Buries You, Ready Or Not.

I Wake Expectant, Hoping To See A New Thing.

Books Swept Me Away, This Way And That, One After The Other; I Made Endless Vows According To Their Lights For I Believed Them.

There Is A Muscular Energy In Sunlight Corresponding To The Spiritual Energy Of Wind.