It’s a Hell of a View When You Have This Far To Fall

Shine, perishing Republic

Ryan Frawley
Counter Arts
Published in
5 min readNov 3, 2022

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Photo by Olga Kravchuk on Unsplash

“Life is good, be it

Stubbornly long or suddenly

A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less

Than mountains: shine,

perishing republic.”

- Robinson Jeffers, Shine Perishing Republic (1925)

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Ryan Frawley
Counter Arts

Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com