Forage by Rose McLarney

Author:Rose McLarney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

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After the Civil War, painting the American West

was popular because it was not the setting

of either side’s tragedy. People thought they wanted

to look at scenes free from the marks of our enemies

and selves. But what man has ever really lusted for

the untouched except in the briefest of moments before

he lays his own hands all over it? Surroundings

that exemplify purity are unsettled, empty.

Eastern architecture’s crowded, old walls hold on

to the curios of fondness, along with the clutter of anger.

And, really, isn’t the woman most wanted she who remembers

everything, who knows man’s faults, and will spoil him still?

Spoil—that’s the word used for what builders of houses do

to once-wild landscapes they admire too much to let alone.

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