I first met this a year or two ago and, as a gardener with a large compost heap, have never again looked upon kitchen waste in quite the same way. Or on my own end...

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“Cell after cell the plants convert

my special richness in the dirt:

All that they get, they get by chance.

And multiply in ignorance.”

(Thom Gunn, 1957)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/27273/the-unsettled-motorcyclists-vision-of-his-death

The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of His Death by… | Poetry Magazine

April 1957 | Reed Whittemore, Hugh Kenner, Thom Gunn, Warren Hassmer, G. Koehler, Ernest Kroll, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Herbert Morris, Gil Orlovitz, William Smith, William Stafford, Robert Stock, Charles Tomlinson, Tu Fu, Alva Turner, Harold Witt, Kenneth Koch

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