Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@juliet_turner6 Kim Stafford is from Portland, Oregon. The excerpt is from Gary Paul Nabhan's 'Cultures of Habitat: on nature, culture, and story.'

The Parable of the Poppy and the Bee I want to find our cousin somewhere in the dawn, sporting the pungent gleam of dew and sun, our secret cousin Glimmer of honey, our crazy cousin Wild bee’s delight. Some call the wild bees gone, their hymns extinct. Some call the glade still and cold. Yet I call her and call her back. I call our cousin’s many names, who sang the psalms that saved us. KIM STAFFORD, Oregon Reunion of the Rare
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The Parable of the Poppy and the Bee I want to find our cousin somewhere in the dawn, sporting the pungent gleam of dew and sun, our secret cousin Glimmer of honey, our crazy cousin Wild bee’s delight. Some call the wild bees gone, their hymns extinct. Some call the glade still and cold. Yet I call her and call her back. I call our cousin’s many names, who sang the psalms that saved us. KIM STAFFORD, Oregon Reunion of the Rare