Survival by Margaret Atwood

Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459664807
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Published: 1972-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

And where the farms have gone back

to forest

are only soft outlines and

shadowy differences –

Old fences drift vaguely among the trees

a pile of moss-­covered stones

gathered for some ghost purpose

has lost meaning under the meaningless sky

– they are like cities under water and

the undulating green waves of time

are laid on them. . . .

“This is a country where the young leave quickly,” Purdy says; and though he concludes with the possibility of a return to “the country of our defeat,” where “the high townships of Cashel / McClure and Marmora once were,” he admits he no longer remembers how to get there:

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