blowing the word you can't remember, the words "word" and "the"
across the oil plain next door, booming, winter dollar, draft home
the crude can't proof from wind, what a travel to bridge the distance
from work to living, from shoplifting to giving, flight out of question
and sunwarm grass a fallacy, a vertical descent without the cavern
the deeper the brighter, floating mountain, dead arrogant friends
becoming part of the wallflowers, the moss and crumble-rock
untouched by flesh, a library of the crude word of rescue
one talisman of Oppen, one of a thousand nodes of knowing