Monday, October 16, 2023

from "Little Songs for Gaia"


across salt marshes north of
 San Francisco Bay
 cloud soft grays
 blues little fuzzies
 illusion structures—pale blue of the edge,
          sky behind, 

hawk dipping and circling
 over salt marsh

 ah, this slow-paced
 system of systems, whirling and turning

 a five-thousand-year span
       about all that a human can figure, 

grasshopper man in his car driving through.

---Gary Snyder

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