LINES FOR AUGUST 31
The hazy dream
of sky, hang-down
moisture in the hills,
the last green
scream of August.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 28Grey scoop
of wind.
August
bending
towards
autumn.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 27
Weight
of the rain
bending
the wisdom
of trees.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 26
Wet road, and steam
rising like a dream.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 25
Sound of rain,
heart beat.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 24
Green shine
of rain
in the woods,
hope of
sky above.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 21Imagination
makes patterns of pieces,
something larger
than these few shards.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 20We cannot see
that which we
cannot understand.
Understand?
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LINES FOR AUGUST 19The road
runs into the woods
and we
cannot follow.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 18All the miles
and the dullness
of each day's
little surprise.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 17
If not
water,
what?
Rock, and
the idea
of rock.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 14Morning sky.
We notch
another day.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 13All the rain,
all the futility
of words.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 12Water through the marsh
slow as a sermon.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 11Blue blush
of the river
through the green
low ground.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 10A dragging sky and rain
blistering the road
all the way home.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 7A real poem
requires more
day than I
have today.
All I get
is the shape
of it.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 6There are
five words
that will
do. There
are fifty,
hundreds,
thousands,
a million
words, and
still I'm
looking for
this one.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 5It is
as if
I must
translate
myself.
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LINES FOR AUGUST 4Scratch marks
on paper -
is this
all you can
make of life,
scratch marks?
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LINES FOR AUGUST 3Some days
only stones
understand.
Some days
that's enough.
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