Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.
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1FROM THE NURSERY
When I was born, you waited
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There's just no accounting for happiness,
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away.
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I got out of bed
on two strong legs.
It might have been
otherwise. I ate
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I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .
I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . .
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