Beyond and farther and yet from every vantage rising eternally near crag above crag this is the upthrust A tossed village lies like a trampled flag at its feet and up there look the ridge sloughs off the stunted firs like the very selvedge of earth itself raveled and frayed where the ground peels back Call it the void pulled inside out or the universal grain in a mindless exultation sprung from the notgrain Its climbers learn footholds too far apart and their own impatience and death in the dark drops Call it a comprising call it the center and edge of every relation the journeyer's pivot and the journeyer's horizon. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOUNTAIN by HAYDEN CARRUTH ABOVE HALF MOON by JAMES GALVIN THE FLAME LIGHTS UP by DAVID IGNATOW CALLING DREAMS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO MAY HOWARD JACKSON - SCULPTOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 1. SUNRISE IN THE TROPICS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |