We tried to make a private world
of solid immediate things
the sand the surf the shimmer of the sky
a blend of earth and light and sea
water beings on a water planet
water beings on a water planet
but before water there were tides of fire
and both our tones flow from the older fountain.
"Poetry should be made of solid and immediate things... which are set on fire by human passion."
—Robinson Jeffers in a letter to Una Call Kuster, c. 1912.
