This poem is taken from PN Review 17, Volume 7 Number 3, January - February 1981.
Three Poems
SURVIVAL
I stand on this stump
To knock on wood
For the good I once
Misunderstood
Cut down, yes
But rooted still
What stumps compress
No axe can kill
AT A STANDSTILL
That statue, that cast
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