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Among the trees that remain
in our yard in Iowa City,

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now the Dutch Elm disease
has swept through it,

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is a mulberry.

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"The Self and the Mulberry".

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I wanted to see the self so
I looked at the mulberry.

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It had no trouble
accepting its limits,

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yet defining and redefining a
small area so that any shape

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was possible, any movement.

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It stayed put, but was
part of all the air.

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I wanted to learn to
be there and not there,

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like the continually changing,
slightly moving, mulberry

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wild cherry and
particularly, the willow.

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Like the willow, I tried
to weep without tears.

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Like the cherry tree I tried
to be sturdy and productive.

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Like the mulberry I
tried to keep moving.

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I couldn't cry right,
couldn't stay or go.

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I kept losing parts of
myself like a soft maple.

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I felt ill like the elm.

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That was the end of looking in
nature to find a natural self.

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Let nature think itself
not manly enough.

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Let nature wonder at
the mystery of laughter.

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Let nature hypothesize
man's indifference to it.

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Let nature take a turn
at saying what love is.

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