A reading and short analysis of Jim Harrison's poem, recorded live in [Hellhole canyon](https://hikestgeorge.com/hiking-trails/hellhole-canyon/), outside St. George, Utah.
#### TEXT OF POEM
"I Believe" by Jim Harrison, from his book [_In Search of Small Gods_](https://www.amazon.com/Search-Small-Gods-Jim-Harrison/dp/1556593198)
I believe in steep drop-offs, the thunderstorm across the lake
in 1949, cold winds, empty swimming pools,
the overgrown path to the creek, raw garlic,
used tires, taverns, saloons, bars, gallons of red wine,
abandoned farmhouses, stunted lilac groves,
gravel roads that end, brush piles, thickets, girls
who haven't quite gone totally wild, river eddies,
leaky wooden boats, the smell of used engine oil,
turbulent rivers, lakes without cottages lost in the woods,
the primrose growing out of a cow skull, the thousands
of birds I've talked to all of my life, the dogs
that talked back, the Chihuahuan ravens that follow
me on long walks. The rattler escaping the cold hose,
the fluttering unknown gods that I nearly see
from the left corner of my blind eye, struggling
to stay alive in a world that grinds them underfoot.
Episode 137: Emily Dickinson's "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
Episode 136: William Wordsworth's "Ode"
Episode 135: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 9-11
Episode 134: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 7-8
Episode 133: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 5-6
Episode 132: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 3-4
Episode 131: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 1 & 2
Episode 130: Walt Whitman's "Darest Thou Now, O Soul"
Episode 129: Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Episode 128: Poems by Robert Frost and Wendell Berry
Episode 127: Michael Blumenthal's "For My Son, Reading Harry Potter"
Episode 126: Wendell Berry's "Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front"
Episode 125: John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Episode 124: Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day"
Episode 123: George Herbert's "Prayer (I)"
Episode 122: Sheenagh Pugh's "Sometimes"
Episode 121: Haiku by Bashō
Episode 120: Theodore Roethke's "Dolor"
Episode 119: Anne Bradstreet's "Upon my Son Samuel, His Going for England, November 6, 1657"
Episode 118: From Federico García Lorca's “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias”
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