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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PERVERSITY, by KATHERINE HAYNES GATCH
First Line: I long to lose my body and become a tree
Last Line: As now I hate mobility?
Subject(s): Wellesley College
First Line: I long to lose my body and become a tree
Last Line: As now I hate mobility?
Subject(s): Wellesley College
I LONG to lose my body and become a tree,
From all my crass volitions be transformed
Into the trailing green
Of that cool, dripping larch tree,
Full of dim repose in this clean April air.
Strong roots that creep away
Into the good brown earth beneath the grass
Would hold me fastened, confident,
Secure for all time of my place and there to wait
The soft persuasion of a passing breeze.
And I would yield to it and gently bend
My pliant greenness more to feel it touch me.
Could tree-life stabilize my spirit so
That if a little warbler darted through me
I would not long to fly and sing with him?
Or would I curse my deep grown roots
As now I hate mobility?
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