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A Listening Ritual for this Fall: Poetry Unbound

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Lost by David Wagoner

The word lost can mean so many different things. Is it that you want to be lost actually? I sometimes have deep suspicion of the idea of being found because I am interested perhaps artistically in the idea about what happens when you know you're not found. And still, the trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost wherever you are is called here. You most treat us as a powerful stranger. Most ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again saying, here, no two trees are same to raven. No two branches are the same to a wren

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