varieties of quiet Poem by Larry Eigner

varieties of quiet

music gives
the lay of a land

such even as this with
hills everywhere, defined it seems
by the city

other than flat clouds sunk
to the distance

while the sun leaves


a fire run down in
the streets below


and the old mission burned
the colors of the day it

misted too this morning

the cliff-like pediments

some times you've had rain

blank in fog