“Who stunned the dirt into noise?
Ask the mole, he knows.”

— Theodore Roethke

"The Lost Son," ll. 66-70
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
Context: Who stunned the dirt into noise?
Ask the mole, he knows.
I feel the slime of a wet nest.
Beware Mother Mildew.
Nibble again, fish nerves.

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American poet 1908–1963

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