Houses three stories high

or block homes of apartments

       both with steep Norman roofs

The fish swims in the river

and shares it with other fish

                    The cabbages have a garden

                     to share with the lettuce and radishes,

                                                      the tomatoes

The cow has a small pasture

and grazes it by herself

                                                       An old man lies on a sack on

                                                       a hillside in the sun

                                                       after lunch .

                                                       watches the train whip by

The dead lie in the cemetery near the tracks

share earth with the other dead

and do not look at anything

A barge on the river barges past, the wash flying

The fish swim in the river

                   They share it with the barge,

                             the fishermen .

                                                                                                            late Aug  /  1968

                                                                                                                             [1975]