Have you ever seen
anything 
in your life
more wonderful
 
than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon
 
and into the clouds or the hills
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone-
and how it slides again
 
out of the blackness
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower
 
streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at it’s perfect imperial distance-
and have you ever felt for anything
 
such wild love
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure 
that fills you
as the sun reaches out,
as it warms you
 
as you stand there,
empty-handed-
or have you too
turned from this world-
 
or have you too gone crazy 
for power,
for things?