300 PART THREE
ing,” part homage to Stevens, stays more personal and self-questioning. Both
poets thrive along the bind between words and things—Stevens outdoing his
Snow Man’s “mind of winter” by tracking the pigeons’ ambiguous undulations,
Ammons walking along watching the eagles’ circlings, tracing earth’s changes
with his changing lines.
The reeds give
way to the
wind and give
the wind away