1 result for (book:deavf2 AND heading:"poem by jane robert with commentari by robert f butt" AND stemmed:let)
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
                                lord let me remember how it was
 when i nudged my skin
 against the touch of each new morning
 and bounded through
 the thick thought-forests
 that stretched between dawn and noon,
 when like magic my lunch was put before me.
 lord let me remember how it was
 when i was so new
 that i thought i was part of the morning.
                                
[... 1 paragraph ...]
                                lord let me remember how it was
 when i nuzzled the air in the morning
 and thought i could wiggle a distant leaf
 just as i moved my own ears and toes.
 i thought that i caused rain to fall
 just as the tears from my own eyes
 wet my cheeks,
 and that my thoughts turned into clouds
 that circled the top of my head.
                                
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
                                I’ve done the best I could
 with thy sweet heritage of blood,
 one creature like all the rest
 born from your power and benevolence,
 graced to share in what you are
 for your love’s multiplication
 knows no prejudice,
 so let me humbly state my thanks
                                
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
                                I’ve always transferred my life to letters,
 and one day it will reside
 exclusively in written nouns and vowels,
 clean paragraphs
 distilled from mysterious life’s days.
 Even before death’s event
 I plan my mind’s resting place
 as if there is a second life
 in thought’s products that defies
 the brain’s shorter span, and rises
 sans blood, flesh, hand or eye,
 self-contained, truly alive at last;
 like some mental balloon
 set on a safe course finally
 through unexplored skies
 when the hand that holds it
 lets it go.
                                
[... 1 paragraph ...]