ben delaney

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Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn’t go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

Manifesto: A Mad Farmer’s Liberation Front — by Wendell Barry

I just discovered this poem for the first time in a completely random way — (fate-like perhaps?) — and I almost started shouting half way through reading it. Simply amazing. (Be sure to click through and read the whole thing; the snippet above is just the last stanza.)

I will now go find every piece of Wendell Barry anything I can find and read nothing but him for the next month or two. :)

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