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Gary Snyder
For Philip Zenshin Whalen
d. 26 June 2002
(and for 33 pine trees)
Load of logs on
chains cinched down and double-checked
the truck heads slowly up the hill
I bow namaste and farewell
these ponderosa pine
whose air and rain and sun we shared
for thirty years,
struck by beetles needles
turning nasty brown,
and moving on.
—decking, shelving, siding,
stringers, stubs, and joists,
I will think of you pines from this mountain
as you shelter people in the Valley
years to come
— Gary Snyder, danger on peaks (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005)
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