breathing in autumn,
setting free the callow heart
like leaves from a tree.
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cold waters flow
until rigid with winter –
this is not our way.
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the lonesome one knows:
where you are doesn’t tell you
who you will yet be.
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some birds stay longer,
though their flocks left long ago,
and i understand.
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earth and water speak;
the wind sings, stoking our fire –
this, our element