<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548239" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chicken Feed on the Fortymile</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I spent one summer on the Fortymile<br>not far from Chicken in Alaska</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dredging with outboard motor<br>rigged to a device that sucked up<br>sand and dirt from river bottom</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a coffee can of that summer<br>work sits on a shelf in the garage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to separate particles of gold<br>from black sand and soil<br>requires centrifugal force<br>which would yield chicken feed<br>small return for huge expense</div><div style="margin:10px 0">poets and prospectors alike<br>scratch in the soil for simile<br>and metaphor but often<br>recover bits and pieces<br>tattered remnants of grand<br>potential unrealized<br>in reality</div><div style="margin:10px 0">poets keep undigested<br>experience in notebooks<br>and failing memory<br>much as prospectors<br>keep black sand<br>in coffee cans<br>on forgotten shelves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">chicken feed <br>minute specks of gold<br>in line and verse<br>can excite<br>like the gleam<br>of gold<br>in coffee can</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Pruchnicki">Michael Pruchnicki</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548239" data-title="Chicken Feed on the Fortymile de Michael Pruchnicki" data-description="I spent one summer on the Fortymile not far from Chicken in Alaska dredging with outboard motor rigged to a device that sucked up sand and dirt from river bottom a coffee can of that summer work sits on a shelf in the garage to separate particl..."></div> </div> </div>

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