(Lost Cloud by André Kertész, 1894-1985,
Hungarian-born photographer)
EYESIGHT
It was May before my
attention came
to spring and
my word I said
to the southern slopes
I've
missed it, it
came and went before
I got right to see
don't worry, said the mountain,
try the later northern slopes
or if
you can climb, climb
into spring: but
said the mountain
it's not that way
with all things, some
that go are gone
~ A. R. Ammons (1926-2001), American poet
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