On the walk, a patch of green,
a slip of bloom which someone
has tagged: “Bashful.”
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I try to walk fast, believing
that way, I might gain space
to catch up with myself.
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Slub of hand-dyed yarns, colors
other than the dark and blue of ink:
I’ll plunge my hands into their stain.
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How much more of our history
do we need to rescue? Between the owl
and the dogwood, we don’t get to decide.
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In the evenings, the heat
is a faceted glass from which,
gratefully, we’ll drink to sleep.
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Coming across the word outhouse,
sometimes I imagine these rooms walking
outside without us just to sit in moonlight.