......

    A spinning cloud
a gracefully curved dashboard and slender spring wagon
                  well enough to measure by eye   from lengths of grooved shoe rod
                            a sagging floor beam with a chunk of locust


                          rock-cracking frost, scouring wind
                                and the surging lions of years
                                  the shape of the ocean in the polar regions


                                      fit new handles into his sledges and hammers
                                                                  to cut a length of iron