Dearest Undying Love: icicle trees stalwart star stalking cloud;

         Chittering leaves chuckling chattels of wind.
  Here are roots exposed that that tree by river water drown
                                     And dam
       And overflow--
                 A slow and seemly constant caress.

Within the ivory maple boughs, an oriole surveys a robin's nest;

         A plane turns toward the end of its flight.
  Here there is a tensility of life against the wash of death
                                     And thought
       And whim--
                 Storm royalty roiling over field.

         All signs of condemnation are condemned;

The rot ripened spring upstages all, self-beloved and undying.