I'll still be here

Witchgrass

“….I was here first,

before you were here, before

you ever planted a garden.

And I’ll be here when only the sun and the moon

are left, and the sea, and the wide field.

I will constitute the field.’’

—From “Witchgrass,’’ by Louise Gluck (born in 1943), Nobel Prize winning New England poet and writer in residence at Yale