M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 (audio only)
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Who hears the humming
of rocks at great height,
the long steady drone
of granite holding together,
the strumming of obsidian
to itself? I go among
the stones stooping
and pecking like a
sparrow, imagining
the glacier’s final push
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