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For this session we read a poem “By the Boulder Cluster the Wind” by A. R. Ammons, posted below.

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By the Boulder Cluster the Wind by A. R. Ammons

By the boulder cluster the wind
struck up a dust-ghost,
A brothering shade and shadow,
And oh I said
that I could live lively as you
and have
no more to die

and the ghost tore
into a shackling shrub
and failed like sleet,
returning
shape’s interference
to clearing


The dust rearranging
to a new breeze
I gave up
the intermediate
paradise
and said so
all things do misty arisings
mistily depart,
shingling down
the rills and ruffles
of nothing-in-between.

Ammons, A. R. “By the Boulder Cluster the Wind.” 
The Hudson Review, vol. 30, no. 3, 1977, pp. 371–371.