Icy Mountains Constantly Walking
—for Seamus Heaney
Work took me to Ireland
……….. a twelve-hour flight.
The river Liffy;
……….. ale in a bar,
So many stories
……….. of passions and wars—
A hilltop stone tomb
……….. with the wind across the door.
Peat swamps go by:
……….. people of the ice age.
Endless fields and farms—
……….. the last two thousand years.
I read my poems in Galway,
……….. just the chirp of a bug.
And flew home thinking
……….. of literature and time.
The rows of books
……….. in the long hall at Trinity
The ranks of stony ranges
……….. above the ice of Greenland.
by Gary Snyder
from danger on peaks
Shoemaker Hoard, 2004
………..
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