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poemsofpresence

What I saw, only in words

a single water droplet dancing off the edge of the maple leaf

a young curious fox watching by the rocks of the pine wood

a soft folding flower shivering in its blanket of pink petals

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Not one among us remembered from yesterday the dappled grey and golden folds on the stump - the magical emergence of such strangely fascinating fungus

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There’s almost no way not to lean in, not to be drawn in toward the flower buds, changing, on this tree all tilted, slanted, crooked in the soil, the Earth’s root-hold ever so precarious but forever beautiful

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Listening to Blake Mills

I’m leaning in as near as I can to follow your voice, the sounds of the room where you record: fingers on the frets, a shuffle in your seat, someone wanders beyond the door, the more my eyes close to be there, the more I am

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Stillness settles in, a slow unwinding; Maybe we’re finding stillness, settling in

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The image of him sits in the cloud, as he hands me hailstones, ice rocks from the sky, the fallen remains of Spring's darkest clouds gathering

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The concert begins before we're in our seats – I'm asleep but the birds don't care

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Forced to reckon only in pieces – where this fits that, and that fits this – the whole of it reduced in view to interlocking decisions and machined parts, we trade places hourly, my work building on hers; hers, on mine

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Walk gently through white - the discards of night — whether blossoms or snow, or both

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Nothing breaks the quiet with the urgency of the Pileated Woodpecker - its hammering head on the tree like a snare, a syncopated jazz jam of the wood – channeling Blakey, Krupa, Williams, Rich; scratching the itch to find rhythm in anything

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