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The Daily Poem

Camille Dungy's "Trophic Cascade"

The Daily Poem

Goldberry Studios

Education For Kids, Arts, Kids & Family

4.6729 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today's poem is Camille Dungy's "Trophic Cascade."

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0:00.0

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0:13.5

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0:28.6

happy at carvana welcome back to the daily poem i'm david kern and today's t, July 21st, 2020. Today's poem is by an American

0:41.0

poet and professor named Camille Dungey. She is a graduate of Stanford in the University of

0:47.0

North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA, and she's the author of four poetry collections,

0:51.6

including Trophic Cascade, Smith Blue, Suck on the Mero, and What to Eat,

0:57.1

What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison.

1:00.3

And the poem that I'm going to read today is from her most recent collection called Trophic

1:05.0

Cascade. It's from 2016, and you can get it wherever you get poetry.

1:15.6

As always, I'll read the poem, and then offer offer a few thoughts and then read it one more time. This is how it goes.

1:19.6

After the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone, and as anticipated, their culling of deer, trees grew beyond the deer stunt of

1:29.7

the mid-century. In their upreach, songbirds nested who scattered seed for underbrush,

1:35.8

and in that cover warrened snowshoe hair. Weasel and water shrew returned. Also vol and came soon hawk and falcon, bald eagle,

1:48.4

Kestrel, and with them hawk shadow, falcon shadow. Eagle shade and Kestrel shade,

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