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	Morning Earth: Field Notes in Poetry by John Caddy  Milkweed Editions, 2003		John Caddy  (writersrisingup)
	John Caddy's daily poetry journal, published here as a collection of poems from September 4 through August 31, aims to inspire immitation. He encourages his readers to carry their notebooks out into the world and to make daily entries in prose, poetry or whatever form the words decide to flow.		Two mallards arrow down upon the mirror pond, the water rolls the arrow-wake in liquid silver for a moment, smoothes reflected birches. (March 23)
	"Writing is a physical act; it is not a thought process," he points out. "Do not wait around for inspiration. Decide to write an entry a day, then do it. Decision is a way to gather energy."
	The poems in this collection were written during Caddy's "daily daybreak practice" and emailed to readers/subscribers around the world on his email distribution list who are interested in what he calls "Earth Journaling" -- writing about nature and sharing the results "without pause" because, he explains, "the elevated mystiuque around creating poetry is a barrier to many who would like to write but have been sold a lot of nonsense. So my daily emails are presented warts-and-all."		On this blue-sky bright December day, sprinkled like huge peppercorns amid tree trunks on the white floor, twenty wild turkeys crouch on snow,  heads tucked into feather down, black wings folded large. They all face north, source of bitter cold, backsides to the winter sun, blacksides to the winter sun. (December 11)
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