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Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
Environmentalist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gary Snyder
Burning
Pine
Summer
Spreading
Rock
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Air
Twisted
Rocks
Beneath
Hundred
Thick
Hiss
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Branches
Bough
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Summers

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