A Death in Woods

      I kept as solitary as a wood alone
      And often walked till all I knew dwindled to rumor
      Talked from another country in a half-heard-of humor.
      When death gave me up, I could keep the bones.
5     Today, having at last journeyed past myself,
      I looked into a little wayside brook
      Which, by caring nothing, all my nothing took.
      I left a husk to worry a rocky shelf.

 

From the collection "Assembling the Earth"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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