american nature poetry

expressions of the underlying cultural concern?

snippets:

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

(...)

Gary Snyder (*1930)

or,

Rock and Hawk

Here is a symbol in which
Many high tragic thoughts
Watch their own eyes.

(...)

Life with calm death; the falcon's
Realist eyes and act
Married to the massive

Mysticism of stone,
Which failure cannot cast down
Nor success make proud.

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

i have a new coat!

look at my new coat,
it looks chic, it looks elegant, nice cut, nice length
and my plan is to walk stylishly down the arcade feeling warm on a january weekend.
but the coat is too heavy for the weather?
does that mean anything?
yes it means something doesnt it?
why is it so warm? aren't we in january?
what is wrong?
something stirs inside me, something about to burst under me?
look at what we have done, i was being told in a dream
we should really, i mean it, really change something.
maybe its too late to save the future, but its not too late to change, or is it?

i regret not being able to express myself more intelligently to this matter. but there is already enough information lying around.