Will Petersen (1928 - 1994)
After Abstraction

To keep words honest, I have to go out
into the brambles
pluck berries

I'm clearest in mind when body's engaged.
Cranking the press. hoeing the earth, I look up:
See the mountain: the mountain sees me

Body to body. But ah! Times when the hoe lies idle.
Mountains are walls. Trees, yearnings.


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