I've been reading some "new-to-me' poets these days. Ah, how much I've missed! Here's a poem that I particularly like.
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by A. R. Ammons
The song
sparrow puts all his
saying
into one
repeated song:
what
variations, subtleties
he manages,
to encompass denser
meanings, I’m
too coarse
to catch: it’s
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I love the Ammon's poem, Tricia - "an over-reach / from which / all possibilities, / like filaments, / depend" - how does he go so deep with so few words?
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