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  • I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

    Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.73, Anchor