Tuesday, June 06, 2023

Needful

Rolling back from our star

 

It is needful

to have night

in one's body

the west coast poet wrote

in a stone tower he built himself

on a cliff above the lathered sea


Further east in these old hills 

in an 1860s farmhouse

I've kept standing until now

I am filled with doubt




—with a quote from Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)