Echo

Wind whistles, the green leaves dance

August

Wind whistles, the leaves dance

September

Wind whistles, leaves dance 

October 

Wind whistles


Orange, red, yellow, gold

Blow
Wind
Blow

Dissolve the dark line of long nights and waiting 

The green minnow - by Robert Lax

the green minnow

bears a white &

black mark

at his tail


by which we

understand

what fish

he’ll be


(& all things

bear a mark

for the under-

standing)




your voice

in dark

is no

less, then,

your voice;


mine, from

behind you,

’s mine

as from

before



(whatever is

is mark’d first

as itself;


later, if ev-

er, as gener-

ic being.)


 

This poem was first published in the Robert Lax special issue of Voyages, vol. 2 no. 1 & 2, 1968