Between Two Rivers

After A. R. Ammons.

enclosed 
please find copies 
of what i've

longed 
to send in times 
now better: 

thank 
you for the movies: 
for coffee and 

tea: 
for afternoons
of ambient 

rain: 
for gazes returned 
on glazed

glass: 
for days after days 
of quiet 

music: 
medium for con-
templating 

you: 
reason enough for
poetry.

Note

I’ve borrowed the form and tone of this poem from A. R. Ammons’ “Boon” (1996), which is included in his Selected Poems (ed. David Lehman, American Poets Project, 2006), p. 94.