Air Quality

in
dawn
out

Amniotic See

in
the dark

below
below

I grow
from sea

to
see

Frame

outside

lets meet
outside

unframed
by fame

or
misfortune

inside

on a dawn walk
it waits
for a foot
to take it
home

for a story
from me
of a shoe
left on a walk
alone

with it I wait
for a story
not too big nor small
to take me
home

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I go
to feel

enough room
to be

no more
no less

than
I am

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absent

I talk
about you

present
with you

if I talk

about
you

when
present

I
am

absent

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at the above time
something right
there is
to wear
there in
so
to be
numbered
no longer

no longer

numb

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wet
with being

I hear
my name

the heavens
open

without
a word

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never
leaves

ever
comes

to
temple

Luke 2:36

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how slender her arms swing
from shoulders raised
straight back proud
a child of storms
black with promise

a river taking the street
rolling out royally
before her

I stop the car
to let her pass

a procession of one
to the beat of the sun
a muscle of being
in the sweat of a June day

she lifts me
without her knowing
the weight
in me or I

her name

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a
single

lanky
letter

leads
me

lets
me

learn
not

earn my worth

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not that we
always are

but when we
are

when we sound
true

we
fly

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