Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CITY-BOUND IN A PARK, by MARY C. SLEVIN


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THE CITY-BOUND IN A PARK, by                    
First Line: This! This is earth! Beneath my heel
Last Line: Riding with fierce abandon past his shining face!
Subject(s): Earth; Parks; Time; World


This! This is Earth! Beneath my heel
I grind the rigid rock -- her stony ribs;
Below the mantling green I feel the yield
Of her soft flesh; I see the dancing leaves
Which, in their season, ornament her hair!

Away, O gloomy chasms and hard streets!
Obstructions all man-made; my mind excludes
And thrusts you utterly aside while here,
Close to my Mother, Earth, I set my feet
Atop this little knoll which puts at naught
The upstart Town and reaches back through time
And touches dim beginnings; then I turn
Myself to face the Sun and breast, with Earth,
Her plunging, headlong course through waves of space,
Riding with fierce abandon past his shining face!





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