Larry Eigner

breaking ice heat of attempt eat air more of the sea

moon rocks the bodies of water. slightly we fish the food sometimes in the wind, in the light hard as a pane of glass

vine spread on that wall invisible years birds fly the earth need motion a dial of wind forms roars a little some cat wavering or fitful reflection branches through rain from a lightening sky

the clouds parade no army there is no time no vision that presses distance the right speed the earth might have its green there there is no stone

That the neighborhood might be covered by one roof, occured this morning, Snow on the ground phonepoles, flagpoles, windows, so many chimneys, even up the hill grass smoking out west the tides, clouds from the past vanishing rain the base. beaten out, death when you don't want it what you like is a plain object the long-trunked clouds a weltered event shale fish broken off a spiderweb hitched the dictionary overnight, I left it out there, screens in summer to keep the flies out into the dark sea the open garage doors under the vine which in autumn looks as if it still might hold somebody's backs, encroached saw, horses angling out you want the hills to rise twigs levelled on against the sky After 3 days the air empty from the rain

nights the spectrum of goods lights hauls fast or it's haphazard ground the earth known was a process slow like stars burn a good while bulldoze clear floors some of the land to the wind

a car on its shadow passes far out a lot you carry boards across bends

the shadows around the corner before the cars there's the back windows too slow moment away from the setting sun project tall bug- gye flickering past trees changed here through the seasons over the road branched out

Many years ago the sea in the picture the days vast

vague partial mid sports as never were the leaves' tide floats autumn a time the foreground so clear

wicker chair

the individual woman in it

a hat some occasion

day or night interrupted

see each thing one combination or another possibilities of rain

Pictures, full of waterfall echoes