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\nhttp://archive.org/details/quickestdoorsmal00mcdo  \n# Quickest Door,Smallest Room\n\nPoems byAgnes McDonald  \n\"The quickest door...is the one thatleads to the smallest room…”  \nAdapted from“Children in the Woods”Crossing Open Ground,Barry Lopez  \nAcknowledgements  \nPoems have been published in the following publications:The ArtsJoumal,Southerm Poetry Review,Images,Carolina Quarterly,GreensboroReview,Davidson Miscellany,Crucible,Pembroke Magazine,St.AndrewsReview,The Pilot,Carolina Literary Companion,The Communicant,andCross Current.  \nSpecial thanks to Sue Headrick of Wilmington for her meticuloustyping and proofing job,and especially to the Friends of Weymouth forallowing me the space where many of these poems were written.  \nISBN:1-879934-04-3  \nCopyright C1992 by Agnes McDonald  \nPrinted forSt.Andrews PressSt.Andrews CollegeLaurinburg,North Carolina  \nbyMonument Printers &LithographersVerplanck,New York  \nTypesettingCarol Tremblay BrannerCover DesignWordgraphicsWilmington,North Carolina  \nBack cover photo by William L.Graves  \n~For my foremothersand all the rest who gave me life  \nThere is a way of focusing attention until it tums intocontemplation,and from there to the inexpressible  \nfullness,where the split between the seer and what is seenis obliterated.Eye,heart,hand become one with what isseen and draum,things are seen as they are,in their is-ness.Seeing things thus,I know who I am.  \n~The Zen of Seeing,Franck  \nContents  \nI Scene Enough to Save Us  \nScene Enough to Save UsBamboo Grove  \nChristmas in New York:1946River TownAshland 1960  \nRainy Day in a Rented HouseGarden ParasolPaper FireThunderAfter Rain  \nReclamation Project  \nAt the Point Reyes Bird StationStarlingsOpen Season  \nThoughts After a New SnowStillLife:Deer Skull,Blue BirdTime Piece  \nII.Stories in My Skin  \nTalking in SleepText  \nPoetics of SleepArrival and BeyondDreaming Myself AwakeSomeone Has Taken the StairsThe White Lion of 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