So long, horse mint, Your piebald mix of lavender and soft gray-green under the cottonwoods On a shelf of lichened granite near a creek May be the most startling thing in these mountains, Besides the mountains. It’s good that we stopped just a minute To look at you and then walked down the trail Because we had things to do And because beauty is a little unendurable, I mean, getting used to it is unendurable, Because if we can’t eat a thing or do something with it, Human beings get bored by almost everything eventually, Which is why winter is such an admirable invention. There’s another month
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