On Looking For Models

A poem by Alan Dugan

The trees in time

have something else to do

besides their treeing. What is it.

I’m a starving to death

man myself, and thirsty, thirsty

by their fountains but I cannot drink

their mud and sunlight to be whole.

I do not understand these presences

that drink for months

in the dirt, eat light,

and then fast dry in the cold.

They stand it out somehow,

and how, the Botanists will tell me.

It is the “something else” that bothers

me, so I often go back to the forests.

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Poems in English 

• To Sea by Martin Zakovski by Poetry In English
• To Dorothy by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain by Poetry In English
• The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain by Poetry In English
• The Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Telescope by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr. by Poetry In English
• The Room by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr. by Poetry In English
• The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Some Say by Mark Miller by Poetry In English
• The River by Mark Olynyk by Poetry In English
• So You Say by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Slag by Mark Base by Poetry In English
• The Remains by Mark Strand by Poetry In English

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Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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