Thursday, June 20, 2019

Show Me the Place, 79



“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior in As You Like It (2.1)

79: Walden Pond; Concord, Mass.; July 17, 2002

We strolled the places he had walked—
We saw, we thought, we looked, we talked.

The cabin’s gone—a new one’s there
To show the curious how and where

Thoreau had tried to simplify
His life (of course, his book tells why).

We met while studying Thoreau*—
So how on earth could we not go

To see where (sort of) love began—
That love between young Joyce and Dan!

*grad school course in American Transcendentalism, Kent State University, Summer 1969








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