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JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE 457 UNDER THE EARTH from Southern Humanities Review (1985) Where the road slices through Needle Gorge animals of stone root out of the cliff Their snouts, heads, shoulders bulge from red clay as if to catch the scent of ancient water Eons piled upon eons this is the only place where the mountain lion will lie with the lamb Stacked together, the buffalo, wild boar, oxen, the goat with its grassy beardDid they all stop before they reached the saving water of the river, caught in their final breath? ...

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