Where can E find the poem "The Origin of Cities" by Robert Hass?

Question: Where can E find the poem "The Origin of Cities" by Robert Hass!?

Anyone one know where I can find the poem "The Origin of Cities" by Robert Hass, or know any kind of info about it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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THE ORIGIN OF CITIES ?
by Robert Hass (from Praise)

She is first seen dancing which is a figure
not for art or prayer or the arousal of desire
but for action simply her breastband is copper,
her crown imitates the city walls!. Though she draws us
to her, like a harbor or a rivermouth she sends us away!.
A figure of the outward!. So the old men grown lazy
in patrician ways lay out cash for adventures!.
Imagining a rich return, they buy futures
and their slaves haunt the waterfront for news of ships!.
The young come from the villages dreaming!.
Pleasure and power draw them!. They are employed
to make inventories and grow very clever,
multiplying in their heads, deft at the use of letters!.
When they are bored, they write down old songs from the villages,
and the cleverest make new songs in the old forms
describing the pleasures of the city, their mistresses,
old shepherds and simpler times!. And the temple
where the farm grandfathers of the great merchants worshipped, the dim temple across from the marketplace
which was once a stone altar in a clearing in the forest,
where the nightwatch pisses now against a column in the moonlight
is holy to them; the wheat mother their goddess of sweaty sheets,
of what is left in the air when that glimpsed beauty
turns the corner, of love's punishment and the wracking
of desire!. They make songs about that!. They tell
stories of heroes and brilliant lust among the gods!.
These are amusements!. She dances, the ships go forth,
slaves and peasants labor in the fields, maimed soldiers
ape monkeys for coins outside the wineshops,
the craftsmen work in bronze and gold, accounts
are kept carefully, what goes out, what returns!. Www@QuestionHome@Com