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The image, as in a Hexagram: by Lew Welch

9/6/2008 5:44:13 PM

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Lew Welch
(1926 - 1971)

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The image, as in a Hexagram:

The image, as in a Hexagram:

The hermit locks his door against the blizzard.
He keeps the cabin warm.

All winter long he sorts out all he has.
What was well started shall be finished.
What was not, should be thrown away.

In spring he emerges with one garment
and a single book.

The cabin is very clean.

Except for that, you'd never guess
anyone lived there.

Lew Welch

Read poems about / on: winter, spring

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