Mansion

So it came time
    for me to cede myself
and I chose
the wind
    to be delivered to

The wind was glad
    and said it needed all
the body
it could get
    to show its motions with

and wanted to know
    willingly as I hoped it would
if it could do
something in return
    to show its gratitude

When the trees of my bones
    rises from the skin I said
come and whirlwinding
stroll my dust
    around the plain

so I can see
    how the ocotillo does
and how saguaro-wren is
and when you fall
    with evening

fall with me here
    where we can watch
the closing up of day
and think how morning breaks

-A. R. Ammons-