“the dolphins stitch sky to sea.”
Ellen Bass“If you’ve managed to do one good thing,the ocean doesn’t care.But when Newton’s applefell toward the earth,the earth, ever so slightly, felltoward the apple as well.”
Ellen Bass“the dolphins stitch sky to sea.”
Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar“This choreography of ruin, the world breakinglike glass under a microscope,the way it doesn’t crack all at once,but spreads out from the damaged cavities.Still for a moment it all recedes.The backyard potatoes swell quietlyburied beneath their canopy of leaves.The wind rubs its hands through the trees.”
Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar