estrogen & epithets

Founded in 1953 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Riprap
Gary Snyder

Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
             placed solid, by hands  
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
             in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
             riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
             straying planets,
These poems, people,
             lost ponies with
Dragging saddles—
             and rocky sure-foot trails.  
The worlds like an endless  
             four-dimensional
Game of Go.
             ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word  
             a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
             with torment of fire and weight  
Crystal and sediment linked hot
             all change, in thoughts,  
As well as things.

 ___________
As well as things:
Can go (indicative), are they (participle) going.

I take the subjunctive to say things
Might go
In any direction,
But soon will hit the sun.