At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird's cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.
The sun was rising at six,
No longer a battered panache above snow… It would have been outside.
It was not from the vast ventriloquism Of sleep's faded papier-mache… The sun was coming from the outside.
That scrawny cry—It wasA chorister whose c preceded the choir.
It was part of the colossal sun,
Surrounded by its choral rings,
Still far away.
It was likeA new knowledge of reality.
