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 117: Billy Collins' "The Lanyard"
Episode 116: Donne's Holy Sonnet VII ("At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners, Blow")
Episode 115: Hughes' "I, Too, Sing America"
Episode 114: Donne's "Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward"
Episode 113: William Carlos Williams' "This is Just to Say"
Episode 112: Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird"
Episode 111: Anonymous' "Wulf" (translated from the Anglo-Saxon by Kevin Crossley-Holland)
Episode 110: Keats' "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent"
Episode 109: Dickinson's "Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church"
Episode 108: Frost's "Two Tramps in Mud Time"
Episode 107: Yeats' "Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Episode 106: Silverstein's "Sick"
Episode 105: Shelley's "Ozymandias"
Episode 104: E. E. Cummings' "i thank You God for most this amazing"
Episode 103: Louis Simpson's "Chocolates"
Episode 102: Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
Episode 101: Milton's "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"
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