Earth Verse, by Gary Snyder
Wide enough to keep you looking
Open enough to keep you moving
Dry enough to keep you honest
Prickly enough to make you tough
Green enough to go on living
Old enough to give you dreams
From “Mountains and Rivers Without End” by Gary Snyder. (Counterpoint: $20, 165 pp.) . Copyright 1996 Reprinted by permission.
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