Archie Randolph Ammons - The City Limits

Archie Randolph Ammons - The City Limits

When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold br itself but pours its abundance without selection into every br nook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when you consider br br that birds' bones make no awful noise against the light but br lie low in the light as in a high testimony; when you consider br the radiance, that it will look into the guiltiest br br swervings of the weaving heart and bear itself upon them, br not flinching into disguise or darkening; when you consider br the abundance of such resource as illuminates the glow-blue br br bodies and gold-skeined wings of flies swarming the dumped br guts of a natural slaughter or the coil of shit and in no br way winces from its storms of generosity; when you consider br br that air or vacuum, snow or shale, squid or wolf, rose or lichen, br each is accepted into as much light as it will take, then br the heart moves roomier, the man stands and looks about, the br br leaf does not increase itself above the grass, and the dark br work of the deepest cells is of a tune with May bushes br and fear lit by the breadth of such calmly turns to praise.


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