Poetry in Motion

Los Angeles

Wilderness

Lorine Niedecker
A purple and grey poster features a poem titled Wilderness, by Lorine Niedecker.

You are the man
You are my other country
and I find it hard going

You are the prickly pear
You are the sudden violent storm

the torrent to raise the river
to float the wounded doe




From
Collected Works. Copyright © 2004 by Lorine Niedecker. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.