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1st st speaks
pt 1 it starts, Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line Baltimore Maryland Herring Run Jones Falls Gynn Falls Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line Gynn Falls Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line say it again againSay it out loudPiedmont regionrepeat after me Piedmont region Piedmont region Atlantic Seaboard Fall LineRepeat several xPhysiography. repeat againagain again find your ownBeat ~ physiographic i…
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Those first thick gusts of spring
We are driving out to the island the second Monday in a row for me, a Monday ago in the buoyant warm of growing moon gibbous round and all those first thick gusts of spring, and now Tom and I, a totally spontaneous date the tidewater springs and gullies high with rain the echo cacophony…
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i see the storm we go south in
(or, cypress calling home~) the way it happens is the weight of the wet gray sky landing all in my hair making it so it is all i can breathe of the air backyard woods beneath the three galant ladies triumph tulip poplars ancient mama owl face mother night she prays and prays ladies wet…
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To A Young Poet
I don’t usually write because I’m too busy being afraid of it. Not of writing but the it. It’s more like breaking open a fruit. Not to taste but to see what bleeds out. Here is a country. Here is a person in that country who has no papers but digs holes in the earth, plants trees,…
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From The Etiquette of Freedom
“Wilderness may temporarily dwindle, but wildness wont go away, A ghost wilderness hovers around the entire planet: the millions of tiny seeds of the original vegetation are hiding in the mud on the foot of an arctic tern, in the dry desert sands, or in the wind. These seeds are uniquely adapted to a specific…
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