<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div>The Call Away<div><br></div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="td1"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 598px;"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 556px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" class="td3"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">A cold wind flows over the cornfields;<br>Fleets of blackbirds ride that ocean.<br>I want to be out of here, go out,<br>Outdoors, anywhere in wind.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">My back against a shed wall, I settle<br>Down where no one can find me.<br>I stare out at the box-elder leaves<br>Moving frond-like in that mysterious water.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">What is it that I want? Not money,<br>Not a large desk, not a house with ten rooms.<br>This is what I want to do: to sit here,<br>To take no part, to be called away by wind.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">I want to go the new way, build a shack<br>With one door, sit against the door frame.<br>After twenty years, you will see on my face<br>The same expression you see in the grass.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Robert Bly</div><div><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></body></html>