from Always Coming Home
Ó 1985 Ursula K. Le Guin
I know where she stepped,
that one with stick legs,
incense-cedar legs,
in the wet grasses.
I know where she lay,
pressing down the grass.
The wet dirt got warm
under her softness,
round belly, bent legs.
I know where her ears
stuck up thoughtfully
out of the grasstops
like two wet brown leaves.
I do not know, yet,
what she was thinking
while she looked at me.