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Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

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Dag Hamit, Where Were You Going to Go?

Carlos: I think how I read it, like trees having this relationship with one another which is still, but there's kind of like noisy that you hear a little bit of sound as if like a russle. And so, Dag, start us on this trail from the observation of nature to a relationship that seems to be just forming. Hamit: What I love about it is it's the couple are corroborated by what they see or reflected by what they saw. They're not making the trees more human. They're making themselves more tree-like.

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