Archie Randolph Ammons

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“the focused beam
folds all energy in:
the image glares filling all space:
the head falls and
hangs and cannot wake itself.”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

“I have a life that did not become,
that turned aside and stopped,
astonished:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

“stranger,
hoist your burdens, get on down the road”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

“for it is not so much to know the self
as to know it as it is known
by galaxy and cedar cone,
as if birth had never found it

and death could never end it:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

“a dance sacred as the sap in
the trees,”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)