This poem was edited from the final version of Myths & Texts. It is from Snyder’s “Lookout Journals,” later published in Earth House Hold. Listen also to “The Lookouts” under Left Out in the Rain for another poem written at Crater Mountain that summer.

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Introductory Remarks to “Changes”
“Squat in swamp shadows…”
“Moonlight in the pasture…”
“This morning, 31 July Crater Mountain 1952”
“Clamped to the log by the current…”
“A skin-bound bundle of clutchings…” 

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