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◎Quixote Magazine,1968  \nMany of the poems included have ap-peared in the following publication s:  \nKAURI,INTERMISSION,SEED,IT,ET AL,POETRY REVIEW(Tampa),FOXFIRE,UPRIVER,YOUNG PUB-LICATIONS,BLACK SUN.  \nTHE TROJAN HORSE,IMAGE,andNEW WORD,(Cornell U.).  \nQUIXOTE,CONN ECT IONS,ANDCREATIVE ARTS167(U.of Wis.).  \nAdditionalcopies may be ordered @50cents from QUIXOTE,315N.BrooksSt,Madison,Wisconsin  \nUNIVERSITY OF OREGON LIBRARYEUGENE,OREGON  \nTo A.R.Ammons  \nand  \nSuzette Cat  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2021 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nDECEMBER FIELDS  \nIn the arctic light  \nthe brown land is reducedto essentials:fences,  \nbushes even,become monumentaland while the birches,sycamores,hold a hint  \nof coming winter--across the fields  \ncome grackles,ripening like black fruiton all the starving branches,  \nDEATH MASK  \nTo L。R.  \nBad hours confiscatemy days.Like tyrantsdictating who may breathe,they close my mouth and sendme hungry through the streets.The leaves conspire,and keepme out.  New-mowed flowers  \nwon't have my sympathy.  Somehowyour face is printed onto mine;things can't be faced the same.Night pulls thin blankets over me.Like a thousand locked boxcars,wind rattles past on bridgeswhere I fall with every step.  \nFLOTSAM  \nNotes in bottles oftenreach the shore too soon.  \nNow,like driftvood,this coffin,cast up at our feet.  \nlike toadstools,or autumngoldenrod,he sprung up  \nfrom nothing--did little goodor harm to anyone.  Hurry  \nsay some words,dribble on a cross,and drown him deepin brown waves of earth。  \nNICHOLAS  \n(On a painting by Andrew Wyeth)But the boy's handsare wrong;the fingerscurved and bent togetherlike dry weeds or wireson a torn fence.Handsfor a Negro or priest,  \nthat have touched everywhereand held heavy things。Fingersfolded over each otherfor prayers he could never intend。","cbCaikFXkjTb3roT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikFXkjTb3roT","pdf",2551342,56,"English","# December Fields\n## Death Mask\n## Flotsam\n## Nicholas","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of The Forest and the Trees?\",\"answer\":\"The poems in this collection were written by Warren Woessner.\"},{\"question\":\"When was this collection of poems published?\",\"answer\":\"The Forest and the Trees was published in 1968 by Quixote Magazine.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the inspiration behind the poem titled 'Nicholas'?\",\"answer\":\"The poem 'Nicholas' is written as an interpretation of a painting by the artist Andrew Wyeth.\"}]","The Forest and the Trees - Poems | PDF",1790651599,86]