Week 8: ROUND

Albert York, oil on canvas, mounted on masonite, 28 x27cm., 1963

How It Is


This is how it is --

      One turns away
      and walks out into the evening.
      There is a white horse on the prairie, or a river
      that slips away among dark rocks.

     One speaks, or is about to speak,
     not that it matters.

     What matters is this --

It is evening.
I have been away a long time.
Something is singing in the grass.


                                              -- Peter Everwine