Recovery

A. R. Ammons

All afternoon
the tree shadows, accelerating,
lengthened
till
sunset
shot them black into infinity:
next morning
darkness
returned from the other
infinity and the
shadows caught ground
and through the morning, slowing,
hardened into noon.

Next 10 Poems

• A. R. Ammons : Release
• A. R. Ammons : Rivulose
• A. R. Ammons : Rogue Elephant
• A. R. Ammons : Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity
• A. R. Ammons : Small Song
• A. R. Ammons : So I Said I Am Ezra
• A. R. Ammons : Still
• A. R. Ammons : The City Limits
• A. R. Ammons : Their Sex Life
• A. R. Ammons : Weathering

Previous 10 Poems

• A. R. Ammons : Rapids
• A. R. Ammons : Poetics
• A. R. Ammons : Mule Song
• A. R. Ammons : In Memoriam Mae Noblitt
• A. R. Ammons : Identity
• A. R. Ammons : Hymn
• A. R. Ammons : Gravelly Run
• A. R. Ammons : Eyesight
• A. R. Ammons : Easter Morning
• A. R. Ammons : Design