Things As They Are
Perspective Without Any Point
in Which It Might Vanish
by Jane Hirshfield
It Might Vanish
The way the green or blue or yellow in a painting
is simply green and yellow and blue,
and tree is, boat is, sky is
in them also —
There are worlds
in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.
This among them.
Even today–this falling day–
it might be so.
Footstep, footstep, footstep intimate on it.