Eyesight by A. R. Ammons

Eyesight

 

It was May before my

attention came

to spring and

 

my word I said

to the southern slopes

I've

 

missed it, it

came and went before

I got right to see:

 

don't worry, said the mountain,

try the later northern slopes

or if

 

you can climb, climb

into spring: but

said the mountain

 

it's not that way

with all things, some

that go are gone