So I Said I Am Ezra poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
So I said I am Ezra and the wind whipped my throat gaming for the sounds of my voice I listened to the wind go over my head and up into the night Turning to the sea I said I am Ezra but there were no echoes from the waves The words were swallowed up in the voice of the surf or leaping over the swells lost themselves oceanward Over the bleached and broken fields I moved my feet and turning from the wind that ripped sheets of sand from the beach and threw them like seamists across the dunes swayed as if the wind were taking me away and said I am Ezra As a word too much repeated falls out of being so I Ezra went out into the night like a drift of sand and splashed among the windy oats that clutch the dunes of unremembered seas
Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about ourrelationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often addressreligious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.
