It provided a powerful metaphor of the events which unfolded as Seattle MEN and the Seattle Community of Men grappled with the issues surrounding continued publication of the magazine. When a giant is slain, he takes a long time to fall to the earth. It folds or unfolds in stages during the descent. Perhaps he was slain years ago and I have been dancing with a corpse. In the fertile dung nobody sees the roots spreading like wild strawberry runners playing on a hillside meadow.
New fruit springs forth.