in the same air, the same
half light
could have a headache, be broke and hungry and still laugh."
edge down tall cliff to sandy and stony isolated beach;
holes like doorways or gates eaten through them to sea-light;
the place is not of the land (which is shut off from it by the cliff );
the place is unfrequented by people; a violent cold wind is blowing:
straight up out of the beach
we encounter a collection
of huge stumps and logs,
each one weighing tons,
lodged everywhichway
(showing the strength
of the waves: how light-seeming
the logs would have spun
and tumbled in end over end)
their bark taken off cleanly
by storm, glare, wave-blow
they have acquired a sheen
of curious fi neness -- transmuted,
a silvery white, they
are phenomena of light,
light (that were never