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| Early 19th Century water source. (JO'B) |
To drink from the spring they drank from
when their walls were logs
to clear the field
and plow to the edge of the forest
to die in winter
with the snow
blowing through the broken window
To write in a pure language
of stone and ash and silt
to read in candlelight
to lie down in asters
to drink shadows
—with lines after Tomaz Salaman.
