It’s near dark
and I have just finished
putting my planting tools away.
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Putting the mattress
on your head
is one way
to clean under the bed.
...
I have wronged
the girl with the long dark hair
who asked for nothing
but to follow me.
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Words are the strongest
things in the universe: little gods.
It was with words
light and dark were created
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Everything in the universe
is searching.
Often I search
for friends and wisdom,
...
I am convinced there is a god
in the river.
I am lucky.
I am not like the Japanese man
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I remembered last night.
I told the child
that that was not blood
on our friend's body,
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I sat there staring out the window,
not seeing what was there, but thinking
over why the Norwegians are so obsessed
with the idea of hope.
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I am writing this
simply to tell you
that the most beautiful
sound in the world
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