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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 370-376

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Description: The earth is never still, but speaks her lovers
lying twined among the roots of grasses, lying long
stretched out from hill to hill

There wher...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 377-386

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Description: In the soft underside of war
The home point is to be home again with honor
without quite understanding why
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 394-399

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Description: In the afternoon, nothing
Overnight, unseen

In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers
sending telegrams for more
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 400-412

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Description: We were promised, we were told
that candy came in stripes and boxes

But some was stacked,
like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 413-420

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Description: Bring back somehow the big Hello
Prolong the noisiest day
The clapping hands are stilled too soon
And much too far away
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 421-427

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Description: A word without momentum that settled on a note of calm

caught wind

and spun its venom into froth, to cool
a Sunday afternoon in June
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 436-443

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Description: You don't have to pay if you can prove that the fun you had was clean
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 452-460

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Description: All the tribal affidavits came finger-lickin'
to pray against the rain
to tolerate a cast of wills and listen to the stories
from the Book of Comm...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 461-472

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Description: Something less than the half of everything
is the better, the partner, the woman waiting

What counselor, over his shoulder, can count the ways
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 473-481

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Description: The bargain was that the driven wedge
would never be withdrawn
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 482-488

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Description: A man in motion moves upon good reason.

To create disorder
he must stop and settle down.
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 507-513

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Description: We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

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Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 522-531

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Description: It's a day for celebration, just to be so cheering glad and everyone to know
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 532-542

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Description: Every macho-mind knows exactly what
and where it is — up front, smoking
hot, born to circumstance, savage
watchman of the several thousand Rights
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 543-553

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Description: The first time out of doors in shirtsleeves is a moment of kindlier feeling,
of stern and lonely reservations gladly set aside.

With the passing ...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 554-561

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Description: The Winter was a legacy of crusted weights
now melted with the Passing of the Snow
so closed and callous differences can soften
to the hope for co...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 574-588

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Description: If we could look forward? If they could have looked forward?
at what kind of life
along what kind of dotted lines?

At the top of the stairs, t...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 589-598

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Description: Against the prescience of disaster is the safety of even numbers
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 607-614

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Description: The river told them how to make the map
and
Legends later flocked the shore

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