the brook
hurtles through rainy
woods, over-
topping rocks that
before the rain were
islands.
Its clearness
is gone, and
the song.
It is a rich brown, a load
of churned earth
goes with it.
The sound now
is a direct, intense
sound of
direction.
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by Denise Levertov, 1963
