Let These Poems

by Robert Sund

Let these poems be like bunch grass,

in ground winds,

flash floods, and sunlight,

holding together

while one cricket sheltered here

sings his single song.

From Poems from Ish River Country, Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004, page 41 (originally from Bunch Grass, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1969).