Vile opportunist flies and hate-blinded alligators swarm to the mud.
The wood drake flees, moving closer to its own truth and dread.
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Vile opportunist flies and hate-blinded alligators swarm to the mud.
The wood drake flees, moving closer to its own truth and dread.
David George Haskell 
Beautiful, powerful sentiments! Thank you David.
These are beautiful and helpful. Thank you very much. John Schelhas
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The world will be saved by beauty. – – Dostoyevsky Thanks for sharing these beautiful poems.
Thanks, David. Thanks, Wendell. Thanks, Adrienne. Thanks, Langston.
Certainly many many dimensions
To what you posted , David, especially after
Tuesday!!!!!!!!
Fountainpen
We need to stand strong and defend what we truly love and value. Thank you, David. I feel less alone in the madness.
These poems really spoke to me this morning, and gave me some comfort. Thank you, David.
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Pay attention to the poet
You need him and you know it -B. Cockburn
….. and the biologist and the teachers.
Thank you David.
An intentional reference to “draining the swamp”?
Yup
Very inspiring, David. This morning it’s good to be reminded of deep people in our country who know the value of wildness. And it brings to mind a William Carlos Williams line: “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”