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  • Day 14

    I thought I had
    ripped that vine down dead,
    but it grows on,
    out of reach, even in winter,
    mocking me and my scythe both

  • Day 13

    a word
    for soft green with deep crevices
    fluttering
    in dark, yellow-gold sunlight,
    unburdened by wet snow

  • Day 12

    perhaps he does not
    love me as he once did or
    perhaps he never
    loved me as I thought he did —
    I cannot see in or out

  • Day 11

    remember
    how busy they are — babies,
    homework, office —
    when you are old and wanting
    them to serve you dinner

  • Day 10

    love is the blue
    of the sky behind clouds,
    beneath the earth,
    up to the moon, wrapping round all,
    of air, hidden and ever

  • Day 9

    that you will fade away
    over six point four years,
    so says the wise
    actuary, and that I should
    budget appropriately

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