The last poem ever written by William R. Leach

William R. Leach with his last poem /Click on image to Enlarge/

"Man Comes And Tills The Field And Lies Beneath"

 A stone
as struck as would it voice as many waters,
and lain such currents as the stars
assert Acropolis of, whose halls bind

as into leeways all vastnesses to the heart
trimmed of the harm of absenting miles
and where the suns of no hour shed nothing
of its leaves, and the circulating hawk drains

the ever and always into scatters of doves
as lay about the air an ease assignable
to lace adrift in the white of lace;

as into the Avon as it were at once made
remembrancer, a light as untethered of an April
strays with its lateness beyond the dissolve.

William R. Leach, (1954-1999)
January 1999 - Stratford, Ontario, Canada
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