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Valley and Mountain

Text of Poem

The valley floor crawls with streets
and utters the sound of traffic,
I talk to myself to hear a human voice,
the mountain waits with its wisdom.
My daily path from square to square
traps me in the facts of footsteps
while the day’s meaning seems to ride
like a hawk, small and soaring,
over the mountain’s silence

First Line
The valley floor crawls with streets
Original Pub Location
Original Publication Date
1969
Original Citation
Michigan Quarterly 8 (Fall 1969) 244.
Complete Poems
218
Hearst Collections
Word Count
58
Poetic Form
open
Observations
Likely based off of Hearst's experience teaching in Colorado.
Themes
Twitter Quote
My daily path from square to square / traps me in the facts of footsteps