Cut The Grass
A R Ammons 1926 – 2001
The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I'm surprised half the time:
ground up fine, I puff if a pebble stirs:
I'm nervous: my moarality's intricate: if
a squash blossom dies, I feel withered as a stained
zucchini and blame my nature: and
when grassblades flop to the little red-ant
queens burring around trying to get aloft, I blame
my not keeping the grass short, stubble
firm: well, I learn a lot of useless stuff, meant
to be ignored: like when the sun sinking in the
west glares a plane invisible, I think how much
revelation concealment necessitates: and then I
think of the oecean, multiple to a blinding
oneness and realize that only total expression
expressed hiding: I'll have to say everything
to take on the roundness and withdrawal of the deep dark:
less than total is a bucketful of radiant toys.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXX XXXXXA XXX XBXBXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 821 |
Words | 147 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 3, 6 |
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