February 11, 2010

Poem: "Breaking Out" by A.R. Ammons

I have let all my balloons aloose
what will become of them now
pricked they show some weight
or caught under a cloud lack
ebullience to feel through

but they are all let loose
yellow, red, blue, thin-skinned, tough
and let go they have put me down
I was an earth thing all along
my feet are catching in the brush