Hymn Analysis

I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth

and go on outover the sea marshes and the brant in bays

and over the hills of tall hickory

and over the crater lakes and canyons

and on up through the spheres of diminishing air

past the blackset noctilucent cloudswhere one wants to stop and look

way past all the light diffusions and bombardments

up farther than the loss of sightinto the unseasonal undifferentiated empty starkAnd I know if I find you I will have to stay with the earth

inspecting with thin tools and ground eyes

trusting the microvilli sporangia and simplestcoelenterates

and praying for a nerve cell

with all the soul of my chemical reactions

and going right on down where the eye sees only tracesYou are everywhere partial and entire

You are on the inside of everything and on the outsideI walk down the path down the hill where the sweetgum

has begun to ooze spring sap at the cut

and I see how the bark cracks and winds like no other bark

chasmal to my ant-soul running up and down

and if I find you I must go out deep into yourfar resolutions

and if I find you I must stay here with the separate leaves

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