We Are All Old-timers, Each Of Us

I Saw The Spiders Marching Through The Air, Swimming From Tree To Tree That Mildewed Day In Latter August When The Hay Came Creaking To The Barn. But Where The Wind Is Westerly, Where Gnarled November Makes The Spiders Fly Into The Apparitions Of The Sky, They Purpose Nothing But Their Ease And Die Urgently Beating East To Sunrise And The Sea.

We Feel The Machine Slipping From Our Hands As If Someone Else Were Steering; If We See Light At The End Of The Tunnel, It's The Light Of The Oncoming Train.

I Was Overcome With An Attack Of Pathological Enthusiasm.

It's The Light Of The Oncoming Train.

But Sometimes Everything I Write With The Threadbare Art Of My Eye Seems A Snapshot