"There are so many people who’ve come before us, arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools,..."

“There are so many people who’ve come before us,
arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo.
Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them,
generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay.
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.”

- Ada Limón, “During the Impossible Age of Everything,” from Bright Dead Things (via bostonpoetryslam)