1. EARTH, round, rolling, compact — suns, moons, animals — all these are words to be said,

Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances — beings, premonitions, lispings of the future,

Behold ! these are vast words to be said.

2. Were you thinking that those were the words — those upright lines ? those curves, angles, dots ?

No, those are not the words — the substantial words are in the ground and sea,

They are in the air — they are in you.

3. Were you thinking that those were the words — those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths ?

No, the real words are more delicious than they.

4. Human bodies are words, myriads of words,

In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,

Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.