Two River Litanies

Via the wonderful Matt Frito:

  John Ashberry reads "Into the Dusk Charged Air" by zwallace

  Townes Van Zandt plays "Texas River Song" by zwallace

the people and the stones

A Sort of a Song

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

-William Carlos Williams