Variations on a Theme by Ammons and Li Po.(Brief Article)(Poem)

The Southern Review | March 22, 2004| | Copyright

 
Variations on a Theme by 
Ammons and Li Po 
 
   Last night on the National Geographic Channel 
   I watched an hour-long program 
   about the mountains of Hawaii. Bright green 
   in the extreme, and all the way to the top-- 
   like lime snow cone syrup, that green, 
   or like deep expensive jade along the base 
   and up among the cliffs 
   and the sharp, ridgelike peaks-- 
   small trees and ferns 
   and a fecund sort of moss that covers everything. 
 
   Jade Mountain then call it, this place 
   where I dwell. My house is halfway up 
   and on the west side. And when the ...

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