Freyja Hof's Autumnal Equinox Altar

Archibald MacLeish, from "Ars Poetica" (1926)

A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs,
Leaving, as the moon releases,
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs.