<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Grass Beginning July</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A pause at the top of a leap</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">a pause in the sun</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">itself as we say</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">east wind drifts up the steep hillside</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">on the mountain the heat of noon</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">has dried the full-grown</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">manes of the grass</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the late-running herds</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">they run among the yucca</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">yellow daisies cactus flowers</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">they run past rocks waiting on the slope</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and prayer flag clothes drying </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">on the way to the trees</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">all of us moving together</span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- W.S. Merwin</span></div></div></body></html>