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Prologue Long Grass Hike

Gone to Seed

Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 79

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Prologue Long Grass Hike

These are places

where wind has become

the sole voice,

where the long grass dances

to an unconscious song,

celebrates old voices, old deaths.

These are places

to return to,

where the land has gone to seed

with what we were

and we carry ourselves,

embedded,

back with us.

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