Even standing still, the sycamore
still shelters its umbra
from the sun, like an umbrella
from the rain, without fail.
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Despite this town's closeness to Poland and Germany in space and time,
the red of its soil reminds me neither of spilt blood nor of labor's rust, but
rather of fresh slivers of carrots that mom would grate for gajar halwa on just such a rainy day.
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5842 is the exact license plate number of the white van stopped in the park.
What, you say, are the chances of that?
If you were foretold that you will see a sphenic number today, and that it will be precisely one short of a prime, would you have believed it?
Yet here we are, looking at 5842.
Can you believe it?
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After having danced all summer long,
with the explosive bursts
of the Sukhashvili troupe,
the atoms of air
start their Tai-chi forms in autumn,
stepping into winter when they will attain the trance
of a Rinzai master frozen in zazen.
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Brunch is a state of mind states a cafe sign.
This gets me thinking of all the other states of mind that I have read about on a sign.
There are classics I readily recall: freedom, success, paradise, happiness.
There's one whose main point was: pain.
Or was it: suffering?
These words I once did find that: life is itself a state of mind.
The last sign I remember said the same about: coffee.
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Opinion is a word which when I say it out loud, leaves my mouth mostly open and full of air.
I peel back its layers of O's, I's, and N's only to find that despite its substantial appearance,. there's nothing in there — a tough shell shielding puffs of air.
Unlike a homeopathic pill,
the more I dilute mine
the healthier I get.
I can pick one up at a market near me, but beware they don't come with a label —
neither the humble ones nor the personal truths, nor those sold in cardboard boxes commonly used to store facts.
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The art teacher who tells you to draw a realistic apple does not realize this requires you to draw a realistic tree from which the apple was plucked,
a convincing orchard for the tree, and land, mountains, clouds that make suitable climate for it,
also Earth, Sun, the Milky Way, and the rest of the universe,
all for an A+ on a test.
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A lone dove hop- skips down a set of stairs leading into the park, with feathers of its neck and left shoulder sheening — from a caught sunbeam — in a spectrum spanning blue up to reddish purple.
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The Flat White
sitting still
in a clear
glass cup
on a pastel
green saucer
is not quite white but rather an antique photo's sepia
nor in fact flat but rather a joltful jet
propelling you
into the new day.
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