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  • Day 26

    you, broad elm,
    shaved down to earth –
    I stand now
    on your great stump, yearn to be
    your medium, tell what you will

  • Day 25

    I claim I know
    who I am and how, what
    to write down,
    but nighttime, wet snow falling
    presses me on that point

  • Day 24

    a clean sheet of paper
    hides every sin, each fumble
    and misspelling,
    so you think God spoke to me
    clean through, that I am innocent

  • Day 23

    I wonder
    if the beams from streetlights
    singe
    your fine needles, exhaust you,
    if only true dark can heal you

  • Day 22

    rushing her work,
    damp snow plunges through night air,
    knowing full well
    her fate is to dissolve and
    river-away come morning

  • Day 21

    when you tell of youth,
    and risk, and being bold,
    you do not reveal
    the cloister in your heart —
    how even now it hides itself

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