What the Stones Know, By ROBERT DANA
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Fire says
“The flesh. The flesh.”
Water says
“Hair.”
The air says
one or two feathers in a field of wheat.
Earth says
“Sweat.”
The mowing
dazzles with the shadows of passing clouds.
I say to my son,
“Write your name
on everything that’s yours.”
From “What I Think I Know” (Another Chicago Press: $18.95; 174 pp.). 1991 by Robert Dana. Reprinted by permission.
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