John Cage, Empty words: writing ’73-’78,  Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1981, p. 30.

a and then at last or how
numerousappears the latter partihaving
covered aand not earth in the night April
14
h to be pulled upin West Harwich
very sensibly lengthened rapidly
dryingextendedabove and below
and the whole mass with its
pebbly caddis-cases
subequaldw f even wheneeto displayBut
in the west a our fairest days
its tail   r aei