“A farmer is separated from a farmer
By what farmers have in common: forests,
Those dark things — what the fields were to begin with.
At night a fox comes out of the forest, eats his chickens.
At night the deer come out of the forest, eat his crops.”

—  Randall Jarrell

"Field and Forest," lines 11-15
The Lost World (1965)

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poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914–1965

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