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May 04, 2017 Arts + Scene » Poetry

The sheep have moved to higher ground 

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In the lower pasture
water leans
into the footings
of the small barn.

Colonies of birds
take root
in the soft mud
of new lakes,

a whispered seeping
of water into water,
the illusion of ground
swallowed whole

like a sword.

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