when the foregound and the background merged

The time I am writing about
is about the same time
that Jackson Pollock married Lee Krasner,
and they moved to the country.

He listened to the rural score.
Soft complex sound in the deep meadows,
and while I was still struggling
with the gap between real and abstract,
Jackson Pollock began painting
"Sounds in the Grass".
It would be another four or five years
before I made a breakthrough in my own work.