Jonathan Robertson

Jim Dilles wrote poetry expressing his appreciation of nature and how it was to be a man of the earth. The signature poem of this booklet: To See the World Again As Earth He went to lengthen out the sight Of weary eyes too self-intent, To turn inverse to inside out And see the world again as earth. He watched the scud of rushing clouds, Their touchless shadows skim the land, A splotch of brightness run the slope Before it slipped beyond the ridge The panorama of a day. Then he returned, as all men must, Again intent to forge a way, Placated by the memory Of sky in harmony that sped Across the mountain at a whisk, When earth itself had surged with light. But when his sight inverted again, It was the worldly shades remained. Jim was a librarian at the Los Gatos Library.