FAS




In the empty lot - a place
not natural, but wild - among
the trash of human absence,
 
the slough and shamble
of the city's seasons, a few
old locusts bloom.
 
A few wood birds
fly and sing
in the new foliage
 
--warblers and tanagers, birds
wild as leaves; in a million
each one would be rare,
new to the eyes. A man
couldn't make a habit
of such color,
 
such flight and singing.
But they're the habit of this
wasted place. In them
 
the ground is wise. They are
its remembrance of what is.
 
 
 
Wendell Berry
The Wild






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