Sabbats, 1985, won, written and read by Wendelberry.

Not again in this flesh will I see the old trees stand here as they did.

Lady creatures made of light, delight of their making straight in them and well.

Whatever blight our blindness was or made, however thought or act might fail.

The burden of absence grows and I pay daily the grief I owe to love, for women and men,

days and trees I will not know again.

Pray for the world's light thus born away.

Pray for the little songs that wake and move.

For comfort as these lights depart, recall again the angels of the thicket, column by an

aerial in the well-ming tangle, song drifting down, light rain, day returning in song,

the lordly art piecing out its humble way.

Though blindness may yet detonate in light, ruining all, after all the years, great right

subsumed finally in paltry wrong, what do we know?

Still, the presence that we come into with song is here, shaping the seasons of his

wild will.