Lay down these words
 Before your mind like rocks.
  placed solid, by hands
 In choice of place, set
 Before the body of the mind
  in space and time:
 Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
  riprap of things:
 Cobble of milky way,
  straying planets,
 These poems, people,
  lost ponies with
 Dragging saddles—
  and rocky sure-foot trails.
 The worlds like an endless
  four-dimensional
 Game of Go.
  ants and pebbles
 In the thin loam, each rock a word
  a creek-washed stone
 Granite: ingrained
  with torment of fire and weight
 Crystal and sediment linked hot
  all change, in thoughts,
 As well as things.

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