Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

Author:Gary Snyder
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780811222839
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1974-04-18T04:30:00+00:00

II.

From “King” project a Law. (Foxy self-survival

sense is Reason, since it “works”)

and Reason gets ferocious as it goes for

order throughout nature—turns Law back on

nature. (A rooster was burned at the stake

for laying an egg. Unnatural. 1474.)

III.

science walks in beauty:

nets are many knots

skin is border-guard, a pelt is borrowed warmth;

a bow is the flex of a limb in the wind

a giant downtown building

is a creekbed stood on end.

detritus pathways. “delayed and complex ways

to pass the food through webs.”

maturity. stop and think. draw on the mind’s

stored richness. memory, dream, half-digested

image of your life. “detritus pathways“—feed

the many tiny things that feed an owl.

send heart boldly travelling,

on the heat of the dead & down.

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