Westward Mother-mountains drift Pacific, green-sloped canyons vaster than Mexico City without roads under cloud-flowers bearing tiny shadow-blossoms on vegetable peaks- red riverbeds snake thru paradises without electricity Huichol or Tarahumara solitudes hectare'd irregular, antpaths to rocky plateaux, hollows for lone indian humility, hand-ploughed mountainside patches- naked white cloud-fronds floating silent over silent green earth-crags. O vast meccas of manlessness, Bright cloud-brains tower'd in blue space up to the Sun with rainbow garlands over white water-gas, O tree-furred body defenseless thru clear air, visible green breast of America! vaster than man the Mother Mountains manifest nakedness greater than all the bomb Bacteria ever invented Impregnable cloud-cities adrift & dissolving no History, white rain-ships alighted in Zenith Blue Ocean- No ports or capitals to the horizon, emerald mesas ridged in??nite-budded where rivers and ants gather garbage man left behind in the Valley of Mexico- Iron'll rust under living tree roots & soak back underground to feed the sensitive tendrils of Ego covering mountains of granite green mossed unconscious. Heaven & ocean mirror their azure, horizon lost in yellowed spectrum-mist- Baja California Blue water lies flat to the brown armpit of United States, River's course muddies the delta with teardrops washed dusty from Utah- Green irrigated farm squares in desert- & the dung colored gas, brown haze of labor near Los Angeles risen the height of Sierras - gray smog drifts thru low mountain passes, city invisible. Floating armchairs descend from sky in sunlight, rocking back & forth in polluted fields of air | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CHILD'S PRAYER [OR, HYMN] by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PEACE ON EARTH by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I HAVE LOVED by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS PSALM 1; DONE INTO VERSE 1653 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4 by WILLIAM BLAKE THE STUDENT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: A QUIET MOMEMENT by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |