Meridel Le Sueur - Ripening (1982)

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It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

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Surround of rainbows
Listen
The rain comes upon us
Restore us.

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Who has stolen the pump handle key to water, boarded up the source?

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An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

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No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

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I fall and burst beneath the sacred human tree.
Release my seed and let me fall.

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My prairie people are my home
Bird I return flying to their breasts.

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Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

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It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

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