—30 September 1927–15 March 2019—
poet, translator, and conservationist par excellence.
Fate
Cloud in the morning
evening a white opal
after a white sun
the lighted opal sits on the rim
of dark mountains
some are born hearing dogs bark in the mountains
among high walls just after sunset
and all their lives things are known to them
that are not known even to those born hearing water
or trees or sobbing or flutes or laughing
(The Georgia Review, Spring 1975)