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5 &1/2 YEARS...
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As always, when I hear the two of you talking
across an empty room,
a streak of joy jumps me
like a personal shooting star.
Fortunately,. it was a short conversation
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Ladybugs
Each year, when we had a garden ( Read more... ) -
Trumpet Fanfare
I did not know it,
but he had just said his last word to me
("Yes,"in response to "Would you like
a half-teaspoon of morphine?")
It was very late, 2:30 A.M.
I felt his consciousness there, in the dark.
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Hurdles
A young man jumps a hurdle,
caught in mid-air by the camera (low and to his right).,
His left leg is straight and high,
many inches above the bar--his shoe seems
level with his head--
and the right is still bent, still low, behind him and the hurdle.
His head, with its cap of dark hair, inclines forward
so we see the front of his face:
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outside/inside
I bought Bob a late Christmas present--a tiny
Japanese box of bone, with two tightly closing compartments.,
upper and lower.. The smooth outside is delicately decorated
with a few butterflies, and a flowering plant..
The inside, very white, has a rough, bone-like texture.
We couldn't really think of anything to put in it, though.
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Korean Celadon
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From some of my back bedroom windows
Our neighbors
behind the back fence
have a palm tree, 60 feet high
but the fronds hang fully halfway down the trunk,
like a huge umbrella.
It seems to protect us.
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