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  • A Green Resurrection
  • Philip C. Kolin (bio)

Dust to dust.But our own or earth’s?How do we fit into the plotthat ends the body?

The land has a right to stayunpolluted from embalmers’ toxinsand not be ripped openby heavy metal boxes clangingour arrogant odyssey into eternity.

We have been willed to the landeven when we no longer walkacross its flowered fullness andmoon-glazed wonders

and must accept our new roleas leaseless custodiansof fields and forests where wild turkeys roamand sunlit breezes and swaying cypressmark a slower shade of time.

Our passing was meant to bea soft sifting like an ark with holesreturning us to earth the way rainseeps into a green resurrection. [End Page 127]

Philip C. Kolin

Philip C. Kolin is Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Southern Mississippi where he also edits The Southern Quarterly. He has written or edited more than forty scholarly books on Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, and published seven collections of poetry, including most recently Departures and Reading God’s Handwriting (Negative Capability Press, 2014). philip.kolin@usm.edu

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