“From the Sustaining Air”

By Larry Eigner
from the sustaining air

fresh air

There is the clarity of a shore
And shadow,   mostly,   brilliance

summer
                the billows of August

When, wandering, I look from my page

I say nothing

      when asked

I am, finally, an incompetent, after all

Larry Eigner, "From the Sustaining Air" from Collected Poems of Larry Eigner. Copyright © 2010 by Larry Eigner.  Reprinted by permission of The Estate of Larry Eigner.
 

Source: Collected Poems of Larry Eigner (Stanford University Press, 2010)