From the Hazel Bough
Earle Birney
From: Fall by Fury. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977.

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This land like a mirror turns you inward
And you become a forest in a furtive lake;
The dark pines of your mind reach downward,
You dream in the green of your time,
Your memory is a row of sinking pines.

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