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| 19th century water source |
To drink from the spring they
drank from when their walls
were stacked trunks to die
in winter with snow blowing
through the broken window
to stop the blood of flowers
to untangle harmony
to look back, to look back
to clear the field and plow
to the edge of the forest
to write in a pure language
of stone and ash and silt
to read in candlelight
to lie down in wild asters
to drink shadows.
—with lines and form after Tomaz Salamun
