Never Moore
Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes travelling Off from the center like horses. The sap Wells like tears, like the Water striving To re-establish its mirror Over the rock That drops and turns, A white skull, Eaten by weedy greens. Years later I Encounter them on the road... Words dry and riderless, The infatigable hoof-taps. While From the bottom of the pool, fixed stars Govern a life. Sylvia Plath