Love Song
Like the hills under
dusk
you fall away
from the light:
you deepen: the green
light darkens
and you are nearly lost:
only so much light as
stars keep
manifests your face:
I feel the total night
in myself rave
for the light along your lips.
Love Song (2)
Rings of birch bark
stand in the woods
still circling the nearly
vanished log: after
we are gone to pass
through log and star
these white songs will
hug us together in the
wilderness of some lover’s head.
~ A.R. Ammons
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