Sent a bee to catch a bee in the mews; in the mall; in the meadow. The buzz of the wren in the undergrowth was the ache that came back to me.
Put out a dog to chap a dog in the paddock; the hillock; the border. The bark of the crow was all that winged it back through the whispering fog.
Pitted a horse against a horse on the downs and out to the grazing. The whinnying fox breathed the yellow sound that wound its way back through the gorse.
Hired a man to lasso the world whose voice gave out as the line unfurled.
"Of his recent win, Robert Wood Lynn says: 'I am so grateful for this honor and to be included in this esteemed series. My manuscript, Mothman Apologia, explores the complications of being young in a rural area, an experience that resists the pastoral and the provincial. I want to reach people with that.'"
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"This is a big and funky and radical project. And so it gets walked out slowly....I think a lot of people who criticize different kinds of projects also don't understand what we mean. We’re putting a million books in prisons, and that's not even what I would imagine to be the kind of scale that I want a project like this to exist on. We want this Freedom Library to serve the same purpose as the libraries you find in people’s homes."
