from “Tulips and Chimneys”

after five times the poem
of thy remembrance surprises with refrain
of unreasoning summer that by responding
ways cloaked with renewal my body turns toward
thee
again
for the stars have been
finished in the nobler trees and
the language of leaves repeats
eventual perfection
while east deserves of dawn.
i lie at length, breathing
with shut eyes
the sweet earth where thou liest