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Yielding mind
yielding heart
... yielding earth.

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A thickness
of what's missing
... from an empty room.

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Old aches rebut
stepping kindly
... over dead leaves.

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A list
of things not yet:
... things that are common.

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Paces, faces in the rain
quick to shore, to veil
... to unquenched places.

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Magical, yes
but so too is forest
... horrible city.

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Prayers in the rain
... what is spoken
... what is meant.

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How easy
the meadow wilds
... no sweaty madnesses.

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Rains tender
a night of stars
... and I, where am I?

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Again
and again the warbler
... but could not wait.

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No defeat

she finds no defeat

... no loss in forest.

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(Inspired by Kristin Manson at Flickr)

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Cool squishy muds
deep, deep the toes of trees
... I'm ashamed.

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Trees say to me
they say, they say
they say to me ... shh.

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Too few fingers
for so, so many stars
... but look my love, the trees!

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Mighty, mighty twilight -

ripping out the sun

to paint in the night.

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Watching ... watching
expecting to see and
no ... just watching.

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Crows, birds preparing
warnings of endings
... they've seen this before.

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Shh ... stay
stay and love another day
and another ... and every other.

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(Inspired by Margo Ovcharenko at Flickr)

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Smoking, thinking
in the sizzling rain
... crisp curling night.

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Unraveling
cherry blossoms
... perhaps, my neglect.

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