1. look, here are sticks that blossom<\/p>\n
2. a leaf<\/p>\n
3. last year I spoke here to the young owls and offered them a bowl of small fishes<\/p>\n
4. they cried out, and I raised my cry to them<\/p>\n
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5. frozen dancing trees<\/p>\n
6. will you remember to dress in leaves?<\/p>\n
7. that is just a mourning dove<\/p>\n
8. at last I will see a single new pine cone<\/p>\n
9. all of the days are cold<\/p>\n
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10. the sky grays<\/p>\n
11. listen, a heavy whine<\/p>\n
12. why have the owls abandoned their perfect tree?<\/p>\n
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13. I wear my cloak of skunks, of chipmunk, of owl, of foxes<\/p>\n
14. so many have prepared bonfires of sticks<\/p>\n
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15. why did the birches fall so uniformly?<\/p>\n
16. what wind? what ice? what snow?<\/p>\n
17. like a stinging moth<\/p>\n
18. nothing lives here<\/p>\n
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19. an uprooted tree dances upon stones<\/p>\n
20. like the meadow\u2019s bones<\/p>\n
21. moss lichen lichen stone stone stone<\/p>\n
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22. I nearly fall<\/p>\n
23. I slip on dead leaves<\/p>\n
24. a ladder of twigs<\/p>\n
25. more holes drilled to fresh wood<\/p>\n
26. why don\u2019t I see the owl?<\/p>\n
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27. the divisions of stone<\/p>\n
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Kelley White 1. look, here are sticks that blossom 2. a leaf 3. last year I spoke here to the young owls and offered them a bowl of small fishes 4. they cried out, and I raised my cry to them 5. frozen dancing trees 6. will you remember to dress in leaves? 7.… <\/p>\n