Thomas Hooker

They're showing in rows,
the trees hung in flowered fleece,
majestic in their offering,
blanketed snowy blossoms
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Drunk at the university

Trekking towards another life,
our life's stories get passed on,
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Wrought with persistence,
tender and vulnerable,
alone with doubt
tumbling forward,
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Faded pages left behind,
dusty jackets and pearls
beyond the deeper days of age
a blood red crimson moon.
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My silent executioner
leaving again so soon,

carving light out of darkness
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Achingly desperate,
reaching for words can
seem insatiable,
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Discovering the night,
a perfection of dreams
as the memories fade
the ticking of a pendulum
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White falls
topping pearls of
wet
frozen alabaster
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These bones
closer to ground,
closer now,
with good hard parts,
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The evening was cool and the light favorable,
as we strolled the promenade along the Seine,
the cafes and cathedrals pitch
their aesthetics, while the tourists
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November ghosts rush in
painting loosened leaves
on windy days
you feel the change,
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Fishing days
peaceful clouds,
drifting with western winds
whisking abstract thoughts,
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I see it's gone, the season's sun,
alone in what will be no more,
to reconcile the loss with the journey,
lovely chapters of days long past.
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With the warming,
the sun never sets,
it starts towards dusk
but reverses herself
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More patient now, time has past,
it's nostalgic watching young ones grow,
they twist and bend in crooked winds.
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They met in the wind,
together discreetly lifting
off the ground, taking flight,
blowing in circles, together they rise,
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A discerning allowance
of garnet and fire
when angels flew
out of the burning wilderness
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Braided streams of sunlight mingle with the
stones working together in the rock garden,

between the shadows select words rain down
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Slipping

Red filaments of sun, going down
there's a quiet voice saying nothing,
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There are many states of consciousness,
perception hides between the cracks in
the sidewalk, where the weeds make
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