I'll read a few earlier poems.
This one is called "The Cows at Night."
"The moon was like a full cup tonight, too heavy,
and sank in the mist soon after dark,
leaving for light faint stars and the silver leaves
of milkweed beside the road, gleaming before my car.
Yet I like driving at night in summer and in Vermont.
The brown road through the mist of mountain dark,
among farms so quiet and the roadside
willows opening out where I saw the cows.
Always a shock to remember them there,
those great breathings close in the dark.
I stopped and took my flashlight to the pasture fence.
They turned to me where they lay,
sad and beautiful faces in the dark, and I counted them.
40 near and far in the pasture.
Turning to me, sad and beautiful like girls
very long ago who were innocent and sad
because they were innocent, and beautiful because they
were sad.
I switched off my light.
I did not want to go, not yet, nor knew
what to do if I should stay.
For how in that great darkness could I explain anything?
Anything at all?
I stood by the fence and then very gently it began to rain."