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Invisible Green IV.(quote from Henry David Thoreau; reflections on poet Ezra Pound)

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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 20011101
Author:REVELL, DONALD

"Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."

-- Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 193

We never tire of ecstasy: not in sleep, not even in death. At night, as Jeffers knew, even the whole republic shines, perishing into its ecstatic geography. And in the morning, evidenced by dandelions and violets thick on the playfields mown so closely yesterday, the news is of something very wild and free. The ground is silver-beaded, though there has been no rain. There has been progress and sweat overnight. Our sleep was obvious, like the ...

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