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katie_m posted a poem I love (Henry Reed's "Naming of Parts") in honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day, and I wanted to post a favorite of mine, only it turned out that it isn't on the internet. Lucky for my desire to share, I work right next door to one of the best university libraries in the country (*snif*. I miss working *in* it...) and I was able to pop over there and snag a copy of James Dickey's collected works off the third floor.

So. ( In the Mountain Tent )

Of course, it turns out I'd only ever read the first two stanzas of the poem (that was as much as would fit on a page-a-day poetry calendar, I guess...) and I'm not sure I like the rest of it as much, but I'm feeling completist, so there it all is.

I should really tell my mom sometime that that was the coolest page-a-day calendar ever, so maybe she'd stop buying me embarrassingly bad ones for Christmas every year. They always wind up at the bottom of my closet or riding around the trunk of my car for months before I can bring myself to throw them out.