Everything hopeful is happening
right now in the sky above the mountains still merled with snow and rock
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The snowshoe Hare who lives in the tangle of downed trees
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Perhaps it started when Siegfried killed the lindworm
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“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” –Walt Whitman
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The walls of the cathedral in Lima are made of stone mortared together
with a million egg whites from the sea birds
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I lived the pastoral summer with her in the squat house
in the middle of the field where the sky
liked to rest its heavy blue foot
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Enamored
of new flesh softening my sharpness
I started to suspect
I am meant for blooming
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Then a thousand years from now
cumulus clouds will billow open
like white chrysanthemums
extinct beauty sailing toward myth
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On this first night of war
our generals speak of love
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Then today, I found a new fear
holding up the palace of grief
if they have already taken our outrage
what’s next but our wonder and awe
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