“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
Copyright Credit: 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)