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But that's all different now
i have wasted my time in my time in too many places
the nights are cooling and the mice are coming in
the mice are coming in and what happens now
in between is my life my life and what happens now
is happening now and i am lucky lucky to have
these woods to stand in these woods in the mist
to stand in the mist of what's happening now lucky
to have a house in the field where the goldenrod opens
and a dog snores in the kitchen lucky to have
this bottle of malbec and books books to stand in
lucky to have this life in the mist with the mice
coming in and me standing in one place hearing
the birds it's all different now all in one place
and the birds in the mist singing singing
i'm here i'm here i'm here.
–after Jim Harrison's chapbook, "Returning to Earth,"
and with a line by Archibald MacLeish.
