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The Natural World

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Frown Strong/A Conversation With Merlin

Book Review

The book demands our perfection. It offers no defense of our present behavior and seems to say that survival is indeed possible without all this aggressive earthly grossness.

By Mike Mathers March 1976
Poetry

Selected Poems

From the trees beside me / a hawk emerges, / falling horizontally / toward Bradley Falls.

from “1.”

By Wayne Hall February 1976
Poetry

Selected Poems

It slips through us / a parade of delicate / dead women that carry / the sun in the August sky

— from “End of Summer”

By Douglas Hall February 1976
Poetry

the palm-leaf

alone. / the harsh beauty. / salt waves / strike the sandward grain. / the palm-leaf / totters at the edge

By Joe Blankenship February 1976
Poetry

Earth as a planet needs tending to

One cant love without fear of exposing / tender parts to pain, nor can one leave / love to feeling incomplete, to make sense / from pain, never-ending, like glare.

By Richard Williams February 1976