Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Examined Life

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The trees and I stood on the hill

With the even wind from the west,

Still enough and here enough

To be taken as landscape

By the resident crows in the snag,

Gurgling calmly pinnacled.

Sheaves of sunlight leaned

Against heaven over the valley.

The dogs slept on their sides

In the flattened grasses.

Nothing else happened.

I'd call it a lucrative day.