The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling
—Poems From Issa
….. In the next life,
….. butterfly,
….. a thousand years from now,
….. we’ll sit like this
….. again
….. under the tree
….. in the dust,
….. hearing it, this
….. great thing.
….. C.K. Williams
….. from C.K. Williams Selected Poems
….. Noonday Press, 1994