Bear Canyon Creek, Santa Catalina Mountains — Images by kenne
RIPRAP
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
place solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
straying planets
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
in the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
— Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, 2010
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