God of the Desert Books

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Twin Oaks

Twin Oaks

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Michael Lind
Aug 27, 2022
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green grass field with trees during daytime
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(In memory of Peter Viereck)



The twin oaks meshing by the mall
seem hardly to have changed at all
in thirty years.  When I was small
	I hummed and played
inside the dusk at noon this tall
	consortium made.

Though half my life has steamed away,
these trees have lost only a day.
When I am brittle with decay,
	these beings will
be firm.  Amid us flickers, they
	alone are still.

Soon now, my flesh like bark will flow
in knots, my hand will be a row
of roots, my spine will rot.  Yet no
	tree-life will be
my compensation, when I grow
	into a tree. 

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Michael Lind is the author of more than a dozen books of history, political analysis, fiction, and poetry. A co-founder of New America, he has worked for The New Yorker, Harper's, and Tablet and taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and UT-Austin.

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