Poetry in Motion
New York
Wilderness
Lorine Niedecker
Wilderness
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
"Wilderness" from Collected Works. Copyright © 2004 by Lorine Niedecker. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.