May Swenson

Audio




The Exchange

Now my body flat, 
the ground breathes,
I’ll be the grass.

Populous and mixed is mind. 
Earth take thought,
my mouth be moss.

Field go walking, 
I a disk 
will look down with seeming eye,

I will be time 
and study to be evening. 
You world, be clock.

I will stand, 
a tree here, 
never to know another spot.

Wind be motion, 
birds be passion, 
water invite me to your bed.


spoken =Dave Hoak