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To: HG who wrote (7946)8/10/2001 11:26:35 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (2) of 13020
 
end of eleven years
~jody aliesan

you've learned how to survive
but there's no need for survival
what is it you want to inherit


alder trees as I move through them
finger the winter sun among
their twigs dividing plain sky
windows into facets glittering

I sift their ashes for the garden
sick of routine round decay renewal
ash settles into my hair too soon
to throw the shovel down

and run from signs of dying even
signs of birth its disappointment
this warm spell fooled
grape hyacinth shoots they'll burn

in the next frost paper embryos
of birds flake on the pavement
with the coming of spring

as we grow older
our choices are more between goods

with fate on the lee side first free will
then living with what's left no mistakes

only consequences the choices
never wholly made who knows these ashes
may flash again burnished feathers
fly us back to the trees

on top of the hill a woman winds
gray metal mechanical dove smooths
hands around shiny shoulders wings
her fingertips under its breast gently

swings it up into hingeflapping fall
clattering coasted glide to the grass
she waits it doesn't move

she walks down kneels and slides
its steel up onto her palms she does this
over and over while all around
live swallows scream pendulums
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