Out of Bounds (PDF)

Entering a Sunken Garden (p. 48)

After a day-long airline strike in Milan,

hours of airport tedium in Heathrow,

lost luggage in New York, I find thé garden

waiting as a mother, arms sretched out,

a fragrant haven of herbs and flowers.

As I climb down five steps, bright colors billow,

floating in silence up from a sultry floor.

Late July cuts mosaics in salvia-edged

flowerbeds and tiled paths glow verdigris.

My quick moods slacken through smooth balms that snap

like mountain brackens and lead to a deep corner

where a wrought-iron bench rests, and a whole world

nests forever, where I sit and nearly

whelm in memories of other summers that

eddy in shadow, and thé garden stretches

and argues against my wanderlust.

Lights at Romsdal

Day. The bus glides along thé Trolls` Road

as through thé séquence of a dream.

Stream after stream, U-shaped valleys,

glacial lakes, ice-evened mountains, sated

in argentine light, hâve left delight

and turbulence fluid in my mind. Now,

rocks that bear thé names of pawns—King,

Bishop, Queen—seem beneficent deities

bathed in silver showering from heaven,

and I feel a pigmy in primai awe

before a game of beauty among old giants.

This is as one dreams beauty to be. The mind

aches to find new words to render thé changes

lily-light brings to air, mountains water,

but ail sensés succumb, alert yet dumbstruck

to a speechless siège, until my eyes blink pain.

There is too much brightness to bear

as if thé air, bare peaks and waterfalls

cried for it and an incontinent god

complied. Then thé unquiet star-mark

implanted in my heart sensés violence

and dark shadows striking through that light.

Night. In thé underground place

beyond thé root of my closed eyes,

ice-green-blue lake after ice-green-blue

lake, holding within their clear surface

thé mountains and sourceless lakes

of thé sky,

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