oxygen: a poetry magazine — Issue 4
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), quotes the the Greek writer, philosopher, and politician Nikos Kazantzakis as saying that 'when he was young he had a canary and a globe. When he freed the canary, it would perch on the globe and sing. All his life, wandering the earth, he felt as though he had a canary on top of his mind, singing.' On writing about a walk she was on — 'You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.'
