Earth day
things are made of skittish elements caught in earth,
earth and air making sand,
earth and water – clay,
earth and fire
rubies, diamonds, emeralds,
earth gives to things
a slow lastingness
making place possible
a poet’s words
are a kind of earth
giving a shape,
“a “local habitation”
to “airy nothingness”
bringing to thought and feeling
the “prodigious materiality”
of consonant and vowel
jewels, if you will
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