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“…then life is dead
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gone underground
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withered old dry
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cold brown grey
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clattering
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in the ice blue sky.”
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This collection explores the fragility, exuberance, and impermanence of life. It was written over a year in the early 1970s on a farm in Maryland. We lived in a two-story 19th-century tenant house at the edge of a large old farm. Rambles into the nearby forests and fields inspired a stark mindfulness of the transient quality of experience.
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Picture these poems being typed up in an old house in the setting of a wild countryside, as shown in these photographs.
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Download this PDF of the original typewritten collection.
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