Riprap

Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks.   placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind   in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf or wall   riprap of things: Cobble of milky way,   straying planets, These poems, people,   lost ponies with Dragging saddles --   and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless   four-dimensional Game of Go.   ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word   a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained   with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot   all change, in thoughts, As well as things.
Gary Snyder