recurring poem #1

... first of a series of poems by (very significant) others, selected for properties of recurrence / return.


Robert Creeley: The Skeleton

The element in which they live,
the shell going outward until
it never can end, formless,
seen on a clear night as stars,
the term of life given them
to come back to, down to,
and then to be in
themselves only, only skin.












Robert Creeley (1926-2005)