Archie Randolph Ammons

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    air or vacuum, snow or shale, squid or wolf, rose or lichen,
    each is accepted into as much light as it will take,
    Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, widening
    scope, but enjoying the freedom that
    Scope eludes my grasp, that there is no finality of vision,
    that I have perceived nothing completely,
    that tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    but Overall is beyond me: is the sum of these events
    I cannot draw, the ledger I cannot keep, the accounting
    beyond the account:
    Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    for it is not so much to know the self
    as to know it as it is known
    by galaxy and cedar cone,
    as if birth had never found it

    and death could never end it:
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    the possibility of rule as the sum of rulelessness:
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)