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GEO-BESTIARY: 9 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: I HEDGE WHEN I SAY 'MY FARM.'
Last Line: TOGETHER OUR AGE, OUR MUTE GEOLOGIC DESTINY.

I hedge when I say "my farm."
We don't ever own, we barely rent this earth.
I've even watched a boulder age,
changing the texture of its mosses
and cracking from cold back in 1983.
Squinting, it becomes a mountain fissure.
I've sat on this rock so long we celebrate
together our age, our mute geologic destiny.



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