Carmel Valley
Grass yellow hill,
small mountain range blue sky
bright reservoir below road tiny cars
The wing tree green wind sigh
rises, falls—
Buddha, Christ, fissiparous
Tendencies—
White sun rays pierce my eyeglasses—
gray bark animal arms,
skin peeling,
sprig fingers pointing, twigs trembling
green plate-thins bobbing,
knotted branch-sprouts—
No one will have to announce New Age
No special name, no Unique way,
no crier by Method or
Herald of Snaky Unknown,
No Messiah necessary but the Country ourselves
fifty years old—
Allah this tree, Eternity this Space Age!
Teenagers walking on Times Sq. Look up
at blue planets thru neon metal
buildingtops,
Old men lie on grass afternoons
old Walnut stands on green mountain hide,
ants crawl the page, invisible
insects sing, birds
flap down,
Man will relax on a hill remembering tree friends.