A desolation
Now mind is clear
What have I done but
Or I
And maybe make an image
as a cloudless sky.
Time then to make a
home in wilderness.
wander with my eyes
in the trees? So I
will build: wife,
family, and seek
for neighbors.
perish of lonesomeness
or want of food or
lightning or the bear
(must tame the hart
and wear the bear).
of my wandering, a little
image, shrine by the
roadside to signify
to traveler that I live
here in the wilderness
awake and at home.
(Allen Ginsberg)

