Man is a tender plant.

Francestown, NH : Golden Quill Press, 1969., 1969. Fine. [1st edition] ; 78 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0823301354; 9780823301355 LCCN: 77-95849 ; LC: PS3535.A846; Dewey: 811/.5/4 ; OCLC: 52776 ; blue grey and brown textured faux leather with gold lettering and designs in pictorial dustjacket ; sunned ; Contents : Man is a tender plant -- Poem for a Spring in times of crisis -- To my hippie friends on May Day -- Waiting for the summer of '68 -- The poor people -- The view ahead is closed -- How to sink the bucket deep? -- Pure happiness is -- When I touched the flower of your life -- The knowledge-tree -- Old woman in a rest home -- On seeing a jet plane ascending in sunlight -- For Larry and Laurie -- Portrait of an Englishwoman -- For Boris Pasternak -- For Aldous Huxley -- For Kathy -- The Cosmic m an -- For you, my brother -- Brother plantsman -- For Dan -- He was himself the sound he heard -- For Dean, a brown study -- Pre-Copernican wonder -- Are things what they seem? -- Full moon, invitation to a dance -- The sky-blue pleasure -- Hymn -- The world swims in a sea of pure happiness -- The frog pond ---- Blueberry patch in July -- September equinox -- Fall is the human season -- December the twenty-first -- Come snow once more -- Walking through Winter woods -- The cry -- The children rush to unite with the curling waves -- The contraries -- Evening in Connemara -- Boys burnig trash ona rainy night -- Palm thoughts in St. Petersburg -- Mitchel Gardens (an abandoned Air Force Base in Westbury, NY). ; Winifred Rawlins, member of [Quaker] Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, peace and justice activist, and poet, died in February, 1997 at age 90. From 1952 until 1966, she was head resident at Pendle Hill. In October 1949, Rawlins spent 30 days in prison for her part in a demonstration at the French Embassy in Washington, DC. ; FINE/G