A.R. Ammons. Ommateum, 26.

In the wind my rescue is

the whorls of it

       like winged tufts of dreams

bearing

      through the forms of nothingness

      the gyres and hurricane eyes

the seed safety

      of multiple origins.

I set it my task

to gather the stones of earth

      into one place

the water modeled sand modeled stones

from

      the water images

      of riverbeds in draught

from the boundaries of the mind

from

      sloping farms

      and altitudes of ice and

to mount upon the highest stone

a cardinal

chilled in the altitude of song.

But the wind has sown loose dreams

in my eyes

      and telling unknown tongues

drown me out beyond the land's end

      and rising in long

parabolas of bliss

born me safety

from all those ungathered stones.

** Archie Randolph Ammons (febrero 18, 1926 – febrero 25, 2001): poeta y ensayista. Entre su vasta obra poética destaca: Ommateum, with Doxology (1955), Corsons Inlet (1965), Uplands (1970), Sumerian Vistas (1987). La última compilación de su poesía corrió a cargo de David Lehman (Selected Poems, 2006).