“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.”

—  James Dickey

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

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