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</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 31px;">With Rachel in Her Refuge</span></div></div></blockquote><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"></span><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic;">But man is a part of nature,</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic;">and his war against nature </span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic;">is ultimately a war against himself. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– </span><span class="s4">Rachel Carson</span></p><p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s4"></span><br></p><p class="p4" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s4"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">In this refuge named for you</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">trees topple now and lean</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">I see you in the shape of the land</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">your head to the east </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">your sea-combed hair</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">spread across the marsh</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">your mouth the river’s mouth</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">your hands the estuary’s fingers</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">patient for spring</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">waiting as the blowdowns</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">erode your sides, slide and pull</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">the very earth of you oceanward.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">Returning like sea water </span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">to salt pans, you wait</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">for the white-throat in the stillness</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">of snow falling on dry leaves,</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">wait for your voice to rise</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">through half a century’s abuse</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">into our time of wildfires</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">fracking <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>droughts <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>floods:</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">challenging man and his war</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">against nature once again,</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">a still small voice</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">still waiting to be heard.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p5" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;">——</span><span class="s6" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Kate Cheney Chappell</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22.7px; 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