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Walt Kelly, The Scene
Shifts Uneasily.

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One of the favorite devices of
critics when examining poets

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is to look at the
words that they

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reuse to analyze and examine
their residence tables.

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I did it before anybody could
do it to me by writing--

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by noting some of the words that
keep showing up in my own words

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and writing a poem about them.

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It's called The Word.

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Wind, bird, and tree,
water, grass, and light.

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In half of what I write, roughly
or smoothly, nearby impatient

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years, the same six words recur.

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I have as many floors
as meadows or rivers,

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as much still air as
wind, and as many cats

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in mind as nest and the
branches to put an end to these.

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Instead, I take what is.

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The light beats on a stone.

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And wind over water signs like
long grass through the trees.

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As I set loose, like birds in
a landscape, the old world.

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