Where they grow fewer and fewer every year

Is extreme where they shrink to none at all.

It must be I want life to go on living.

THE STAR-SPLITTER

“You know Orion always comes up sideways.

Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,

And rising on his hands, he looks in on me

Busy outdoors by lantern-light with something

I should have done by daylight, and indeed,

After the ground is frozen, I should have done