Denise Levertov, "Witness" (1992)

Sometimes the mountain
is hidden from me in veils
of cloud, sometimes
I am hidden from the mountain
in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue,
when I forget or refuse to go
down to the shore or a few yards
up the road, on a clear day,
to reconfirm
that witnessing presence.

Denise Levertov, “Witness,” in Evening Train (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1992), 97. Copyright ©1992 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.