Archie Randolph Ammons

18 February 1926 – 25 February 2001 / Whiteville, North Carolina

Recovery

All afternoon
the tree shadows, accelerating,
lengthened
till
sunset
shot them black into infinity:
next morning
darkness
returned from the other
infinity and the
shadows caught ground
and through the morning, slowing,
hardened into noon.
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