Archie Randolph Ammons

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    The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
    wonderful: I’m surprised half the time:
    Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries,
    shutting out and shutting in, separating inside
    from outside: I have
    drawn no lines:
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    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)

    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)

    the child in me that could not become
    was not ready for others to go,
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)