Monday, October 08, 2012

Settle

Pickup bed rattling

dust curling over the gate

we launch a flight of grackles from the corn.


They settle further down

and so de we

shutting off the engine and

sitting on the ground

to learn what we've been missing.


We hear their wings.


Time and wind

flow 'round us

like the creek around the stones.


How singular are we

practicing tranquility.


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