first things

Among the whirlwind and the wreck that life all too often is, without time for time itself and for the first, most important things, it would be so good, for once, to trim it off to the measure of lines like these.

In Leonardo's light

we questioned

the sun does not love

My hat

attained

the weight falls

I am at rest
You too

hold a doctorate
in Warmth


(Lorine Niedecker, from Collected Works.)