("might these be thrushes climbing...")

what may be better

or what may be worse

and what may be clover

clover clover

(nobody'll know)

sam was a man

grinned his grin

done his chores

laid him down.

Sleep well

IV

might these be thrushes climbing through almost (do they

beautifully wandering in merciful

miracles wonderingly celebrate day

and welcome earth's arrival with a soul)

sunlight? yes

(always we have heard them sing

the dark alive but)

look: begins to grow

more than all real, all imagining;

and we who are we? surely not i not you

behold nor any breathing creature this?

nothing except the impossible shall occur

-see: now himself uplifts of stars the star

(sing! every joy)-wholly now disappear

night's not eternal terrors like a guess.

Life's life and strikes my your our blossoming sphere

v

if everything happens that can't be done

(and anything's righter

than books

could plan)

the stupidest teacher will almost guess

(with a run

skip

around we go yes)

there's nothing as something as one

one hasn't a why or because or although

(and buds know better

than books

don't grow)

one's anything old being everything new

(with a what

which

around we come who)

one's everyanything so

so world is a leaf so tree is a bough