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About Gary SnyderTimeline (1930 - ) |
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Manzanita
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Before dawn the coyotes
weave medicine songs dream nets -- spirit baskets -- milky way music they cook young girls with to be woman; or the whirling dance of striped boys -- At moon-set the pines are gold-purple Just before sunrise. The dog hastens into the undergrowth Comes back panting Huge, on the small dry flowers. A woodpecker Drums and echoes Across the still meadow One man draws, and releases an arrow Humming, flat, Misses a gray stump, and splitting A smooth red twisty manzanita bough. Manzanita the tips in fruit, Clusters of hard green berries The longer you look The bigger they seem, `little apples'
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