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Magazine Parting WordsCulture

Parting Words

By Gary Lemons

Summer 2021

When the world
Disappears under your feet
Are you falling or
Flying?

The crow will
Say one
Thing

The fox another

And both are
Right.

♦

Gary Lemons is the author of eight books of poetry, including Snake III: The Hunger Sutras. He belongs to a cooperative of poet tree planters, with whom he has planted over 500,000 trees in the Pacific Northwest.