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Poetry Friday

TO PURITY

I have heard so much about you

if you claim to be you I will know it’s not true

if you say nothing I will listen as I do with my own old mixed feelings of hope and reservation

hearing through them whatever might be you

the way I see the white light [...]

Poetry Friday

SUMMITS

Mountains bloom in spring they shine in summer they burn in autumn but they belong to winter every day we travel farther and at evening we come to the same country mountains are waiting but is it for us all day the night was shining through them and many of the birds were theirs

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Poetry Friday

TO THE LIGHT OF SEPTEMBER

When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not

and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer yet with a glint of bronze in the chill mornings and [...]

Poetry Friday

TO THE PRESENT TENSE

By the time you are by the time you come to be by the time you read this by the time you are written by the time you forget by the time you are water through fingers by the time you are taken for granted by the time it hurts by [...]

Poetry Friday

FOR NOTHING

Earth a flower A phlox on the steep slopes of light hanging over the vast solid spaces small rotten crystals; salts.

Earth a flower by a gulf where a raven flaps by once a glimmer, a color forgotten as all falls away.

A flower for nothing; an offer; no taker;

Snow-trickle, feldspar, dirt.

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