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These are three poems again that
I'm going to read all together.

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The first is called "Sources."

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And I was talking in
class the other day,

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and something was brought
up about a comparison

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between poetry and
the other arts.

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Did I find it helpful studying
painting or music or sculpture

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or whatever?

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And one of the things I
said was that one thing

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that I missed in poetry
was materials to get

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your hands into to work with.

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I was talking about that with
another poet this summer.

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And he recognized the
same thing and thought

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that's perhaps why he
and I both happened

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to be able to freak out
in stationery stores

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and looking at
different kinds of pens

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and papers and fancy
typewriters and as close as that

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could come to
something physical,

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to work with, to
get your hands into.

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And "Sources."

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"If I made something
with my hands,

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a farm, a mollusk, a moon ship,
a lamp to light these walls.

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These idle hands,
something made to leave

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behind the chiseled
head of a god, any god,

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that you might imagine
his hooded eyes,

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a window to frame your desire
or contain your discontent.

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Already, there are
holes in the leaves,

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the edge of newness worn
off, green darkens to summer.

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I imagine my hands, the
hands of a sculptor,

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picture in a book of palmistry,
veins pulsing through,

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tendons clear, hands to
be severed and preserved,

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reaching into the Earth
for stones, roots, coal,

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or black water."

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