The Portable Beat Reader1959Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.placed solid, by hands
In coice of place, set
Before the body of the mindin space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wallriprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,straying planets,
These poems, people,lost ponies with
Dragging saddles--and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensional
Game of