Richard Shelton
- during summer in these latitudes
one disappointment is as good as another
- each year when the rains come
we are convinced by the sophistries of water
that the dust will not be back
- and each year it returns unerringly
falling upon us
like the patience we have forgotten we possess
From Selected Poems 1969 - 1981 by Richard Shelton, © 1982 Richard Shelton. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Used by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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