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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