Rummaging through my commonplace notebooks tonight and I happily rediscovered this gem by Ammons. What a master of powerful concision!
Extrication
I tangled with
the world to
let it go
but couldn’t free
it: so I made
words
to wrestle in my
stead and went
off silent to
the quick flow
of brooks, the
slow flow of stone
—A. R. Ammons
—found in Worldly Hopes (1982)