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A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons
Archie Randolph Ammons was born outside Whiteville, North Carolina, on February 18,...
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FURTHER READING
Poems about the End of the World
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Song On the End of the World
by Czeslaw Milosz
Apocalypse
by Gerald Stern
Apocalypse Soliloquy
by Scott Hightower
Fire and Ice
by Robert Frost
in the ruins
by Mark Conway
The Truth About the Present
by John Lane
The Very Nervous Family
by Sabrina Orah Mark
Poems about Desire and Wanting
At a Window
by Carl Sandburg
Driven by a Strange Desire
by Mónica de la Torre
For the Man with the Erection Lasting More than Four Hours
by John Hodgen
If There Is Something to Desire, 9, 17, 18
by Vera Pavlova
Photographs of the Interiors of Dictators' Houses
by Albert Goldbarth
Reprise
by Deborah Brown
Screening Desire
by R. Zamora Linmark
The Forecast
by Michael Dumanis
To George Sand: A Desire
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Continuity

 
by A. R. Ammons

I've pressed so
far away from
my desire that

if you asked
me what I
want I would,

accepting the harmonious
completion of the
drift, say annihilation,

probably.







"Continuity", from Brink Road by A. R. Ammons. Copyright © 1996 by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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