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They too are the earth, the swansongs of beggars sprawled out in brimming gutters. they are the earth. under snakeskin shoes and Mercedes tyres
The Eye of the Earth (1986)
Our earth has never lingered so dry, in the season of falling showers, clouds journey over trees and over hills, miserly with their liquid treasure
The sky carries a boil of anguish. Let it burst.
The Eye of the Earth (1986)
And every toemark on the footpath, every fingerprint on every bark, the ropy climbers flung, breathlessly, from tree to tree, the haunting sound, and silence, of this sweet and sour forest, dig deep channels to the sea of memory.
The Eye of the Earth (1986)
Here where yam wore the crown, in the reign of swollen roots, amid a retinue of vines and royal leaves; between insistent sky and yielding earth. the sun mellowed planting pageants into harvest march, a fiery pestle in his ripening hand.
The Eye of the Earth (1986)