It was summer's atmosphere of doubt, I said, made me uncertain what I was about; Earth was warm and sure, I was not. I made myself feel the closeness of the crypt. 5 To be by so much richness troubled When wavery air gave me me myself doubled In the very nothingness I breathed and stumbled Was to curse a wealth of gifts assembled. I did not have what I had wished; 10 Nothing did as I did insist. Summer's ripeness came to a million ifs, I had nothing but summer's million gifts. All the lauded grace of giving was Time's; All grace crowded close as living rhymes.
From the collection "The Timid Leaper"
Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]
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