How Poetry Comes to Me

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How Poetry Comes to Me by Gary Snyder

How Poetry Comes to Me

It comes blundering over the
 Boulders at night, it stays
 Frightened outside the
 Range of my campfire
 I go to meet it at the
 Edge of the light

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