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We Too
We too lie in drifts at your feet with folds in our skin deep enough to swallow lifetimes of loose memories Thoughts that are best left unexpressed pressed between our furrows We too float even as we weep carried by air and water and dreams across the fierce boundaries that are guarded by the ghosts… Read more
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On the upper road
Time doesn’t matter on the upper road It stopped passing a long time ago The children here are descended from trees that wandered down the mountain before there were leaves The forest knows how to make itself still and let the sky come to it The birds know just how to call to the… Read more
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The Goddess of the River
The goddess of the river speaks in a language I don’t understand so she finds another way to make her meaning known She speaks of all the life she knows hidden deep beneath her rippling sparkling surface Fishes and plants of course but also microscopic universes where time moves at a different pace and every… Read more
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The Sun and the Moon
I caught the sun peering when it thought I wasn’t looking I’m not sure but I thought I saw the glimmer of a smile All suns explode, that’s natural, That’s how they end But every time it still comes as a shock Explosions of that kind knock everything off their course Gravity and entropy stop… Read more
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Already over
It feels like it’s already over, doesn’t it? I know it does to me. The sun still rises in the east, of course, but that’s all it does. It does not warm or illuminate. It does not sing a merry morning song. It badgers and blisters, then stays above the fray. I didn’t think the… Read more
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