Earth
Always as it holds us in one place, the earth
Grows as it moves, exhaling
Its rooted joy. I stand on tracks
Where nothing starves. Vegetation, green blush,
You and I sail today
Through newly infinite
Space on this surfeited hillside. Complacency has its own force
Leafed-out with renewal. I cannot be anything
But alive, in a place as far
From the blank and the stark, as this.
--from 'Immortals'; James Dickey
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