at sixteen
I saw my first giant condor wings
breach a still blue
rock rimmed valley
far from their expected home range...
A Work Calloused Biophile Spilling Treasured Memories by Mike Ketch🖌 medium.com/the-mad-rive...
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"Raw Humans."
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"Angry White Lollipops."
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What do you keep when you clear out your father’s desk? A few papers. A question you can’t leave alone. Read “The Custodian’s Copy” free on FREQ.

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"Foot Soldiers."
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"Let The Leftists Rise."
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For Labor Day, Gary Snyder’s “Hay for the Horses” listens closely to physical labor, memory, and the long rhythm of work done by hand.

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For Labor Day, Countee Cullen’s “Atlantic City Waiter” looks at service work, performance, and the complicated life behind the public-facing job.

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For Labor Day, Langston Hughes’s “My People” offers a brief, luminous reminder that any celebration of work begins with honoring people themselves.

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For Labor Day, Amy Lowell’s “The Coal Picker” looks at difficult, dirty labor without turning away from its physical cost.

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For Labor Day, Robert Frost’s “Putting in the Seed” brings work back to the earth: planting, tending, waiting, and the old intimacy of labor and season.

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For Labor Day, W. B. Yeats’s “The Fisherman” turns toward one working figure with a clear, almost bracing seriousness.

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