04.19.18
whatever you have to say, leave the roots on,
let them
dangle
And the dirt
Just to make clear
where they come from—
whatever you have to say, leave the roots on,
let them
dangle
And the dirt
Just to make clear
where they come from—
—Charles Olson
as quoted in Ralph Maud's What Does Not Change: the Significance of Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers"
as quoted in Ralph Maud's What Does Not Change: the Significance of Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers"
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Dorothea Lange – "A Sign of the Times—Depression— Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San Francisco, 1934" |