Looking at Pictures to Be Put Away by Gary Snyder
Looking at Pictures to Be Put Away
Gary SnyderWho was this girl
In her white night gown
Clutching a pair of jeansOn a foggy redwood deck.
She looks up at me tender,
Calm, surprised,What will we remember
Bodied thick with food and lovers
After twenty years.
MARGINALIA
I just woke up. Sitting in the silence while everybody else is asleep. After I write this, I will get up and smoke outside. And then I’ll go back to the way things were before things fell apart last week.
It will be Herculean, but I will pull myself together.
ABOUT GARY SNYDER
Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930, in San Francisco. He has published numerous books of poetry and prose, including Danger on Peaks (Counterpoint Press, 2005)The Gary Snyder Reader (1952-1998) (1999); Mountains and Rivers Without End (1997); No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1993), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; The Practice of the Wild (1990); Left Out in the Rain, New Poems 1947-1985; Axe Handles (1983), for which he received an American Book… (more)
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