She is watching her country lose its evoked master shape wa… - James Dickey

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She is watching her country lose its evoked master shape watching it lose
And gain get back its houses and peoples watching it bring up
Its local lights single homes lamps on barn roofs.

James Dickey

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James Lafayette Dickey (2 February 1923 – 19 January 1997) was a popular American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.

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I have just come down from my father.
Higher and higher he lies
Above me in a blue light
Shed by a tinted window.

Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever.

That’s all anybody has got. It depends on how strong your fantasy is, and whether you really — really — in your own mind, fit into your own fantasy, whether you measure up to what you’ve fantasized. I don’t know what yours is, but I’ll bet you don’t come up to it.

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