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Jeff Hardin

             Associate Professor of English                           email:  hardin@columbiastate.edu

                  Office phone:  931-540-2776                              Office location:  Clement 219
 

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Hear Garrison Keillor read "Morning and Night" on The
Writer's Almanac,
July 6, 2005

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INDISCRIMINATE                  listen

I’m full of words but indiscriminate
so that I’ll reach for almost any reach
of sound stretched out to touch this shapely world,
the single nailed down consonants—straw, crow—
the sturdy pairs—barn door, hard rain, corn stalk—
to feel the heart stopped stunned to be alive,
stilled with hearing itself hearing the stillness,
the stall of being filled with more and more.

And then the dance of many syllables
—sequoia, cinquefoil, chincherinchee—
requiring of the voice a lightened rush,
a reverence for being pulled along
the vowelled dips and runs, the diphthongs in
their dialectic
                            singing in accord.

 
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