The Sole of the Earth

WHY LOG TRUCK DRIVERS RISE 
EARLIER THAN STUDENTS OF ZEN


In the high seat, before dawn dark,
Polished hubs gleam
And the shiny diesel stack
Warms and flutters
Up the Tyler Road grade
To the logging in Poorman creek.
Thirty miles of dust.
There is no other life.


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Gary Snyder - Turtle Island 1974