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Willows in Giverny: Claude Monet, 1886, oil on canvas, 74 x 93 cm (Konstmuseum, Gothenburg)
Edward Dorn (1929-1999): If It Should Ever Come, from The Newly Fallen (1961)
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Remnant of the tallgrass prairie which once flourished in the northeast corner of Kansas is seen overlooking the Missouri River from a bluff near White Cloud and Troy, Kansas, in Doniphan County. This area of the state Is unique because it contains the only hardwood forest in Kansas in addition to tallgrass prairie: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, September 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
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Flocks of migrating Blue Geese and Snow Geese Stop at the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri, at the northwest corner of the state: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, September 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
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Closeup of tall grasses being taken over by forest and sumac, near White Cloud and Troy in northeastern Kansas. A wave of pioneers cleared the native grasses and planted crops in the fertile soil. As a result only isolated patches of native tallgrass prairie survive: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, October 1974 (U.S. National Archives)
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Rusted iron hand pump on land which used to be covered by tallgrass prairie in Johnson County, Kansas, near Kansas City. The wave of pioneer farmers cleared the native grasses and planted crops in the fertile soil. As a result only isolated patches of native tallgrass prairie survive: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, September 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
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Abandoned house and rusted iron hand pump on land which used to be covered by tallgrass prairie in Johnson County, Kansas, near Kansas City. The wave of pioneer farmers cleared the native grasses and planted crops in the fertile soil. As a result only isolated patches of native tallgrass prairie survive: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, September 1974 (U.S. National Archives)
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A prairie cemetery in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, near Manhattan, in the heart of the Flint Hills region. Cemeteries are very good places to find the original plants of the tallgrass prairie: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, January 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
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A prairie cemetery with tall grass growing along the fence in Wabaunsee County Kansas, near Manhattan, in the heart of the Flint Hills region: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, January 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
Willows in Giverny: Claude Monet, 1886, oil on canvas, 74 x 93 cm (Konstmuseum, Gothenburg)
And we are all there together
time will wave as willows do
and adios will be truly, yes,
laughing at what is forgotten
and talking of what's new
admiring the roses you brought.
How sad.
You didn't know you were at the end
thought it was your bright pear
the earth, yes
another affair to have been kept
and gazed back on
when you had slept
to have been stored
as a squirrel will a nut, and half
forgotten,
there were so many, many
from the newly fallen.
Remnant of the tallgrass prairie which once flourished in the northeast corner of Kansas is seen overlooking the Missouri River from a bluff near White Cloud and Troy, Kansas, in Doniphan County. This area of the state Is unique because it contains the only hardwood forest in Kansas in addition to tallgrass prairie: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, September 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
Flocks of migrating Blue Geese and Snow Geese Stop at the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri, at the northwest corner of the state: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, September 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
Closeup of tall grasses being taken over by forest and sumac, near White Cloud and Troy in northeastern Kansas. A wave of pioneers cleared the native grasses and planted crops in the fertile soil. As a result only isolated patches of native tallgrass prairie survive: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, October 1974 (U.S. National Archives)
Rusted iron hand pump on land which used to be covered by tallgrass prairie in Johnson County, Kansas, near Kansas City. The wave of pioneer farmers cleared the native grasses and planted crops in the fertile soil. As a result only isolated patches of native tallgrass prairie survive: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, September 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
Abandoned house and rusted iron hand pump on land which used to be covered by tallgrass prairie in Johnson County, Kansas, near Kansas City. The wave of pioneer farmers cleared the native grasses and planted crops in the fertile soil. As a result only isolated patches of native tallgrass prairie survive: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, September 1974 (U.S. National Archives)
A prairie cemetery in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, near Manhattan, in the heart of the Flint Hills region. Cemeteries are very good places to find the original plants of the tallgrass prairie: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, January 1975 (U.S. National Archives)
A prairie cemetery with tall grass growing along the fence in Wabaunsee County Kansas, near Manhattan, in the heart of the Flint Hills region: photo by Patricia D. Duncan (1932-) for the Environmental Protection Agency project Documerica, January 1975 (U.S. National Archives)