James Dickey: Herring

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“She is watching her country lose its evoked master shape watching it lose
And gain get back its houses and peoples watching it bring up
Its local lights single homes lamps on barn roofs.”

Falling (l. 66–68).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

“With the plane nowhere and her body taking by the throat
The undying cry of the void falling living beginning to be something
That no one has ever been and lived through screaming without enough air.”

Falling (l. 9–11).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

“It was something like love
From another world that seized her
From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head
Out of dew, without ever looking, her best
Self to that great need.”

The Sheep Child (l. 31–35).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)