Doubling Your Image

I
What’s so good about the night
that sleeps inside the body
of someone who learns to love
with their fingers
when everyone else sleeps.
(Quiet! The sea is dreaming!)

You hid behind your silence,
far from yourself, away
from everything that brought us together,
like the time, as a child,
I untied my shoelaces
& the trees chanted
a farewell song
under a tempest of smiles.

Winter & summer will soon return.
Don’t cry.
    Don’t …

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this is a pileated wooden ball
dropped in a wooden bowl
this is a woodchip guitarpick
lost down the sound hole

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so I could teach my soul to speak.
    (Jim Harrison said this
          is the language of poetry.)

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