keep the body humming P
On 20/06/2017 16:40, sharon brogan wrote:
> You leave and then
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> it rains and rains.
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> Flood warnings
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> for Ovando, Seeley
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> Garnet, Greenough,
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> Clearwater. The garden
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> glistens, glitter on lilac
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> leaves in shafts of sun.
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> I sit alone on the wooden
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> bench, hood up, smoking,
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> listening to rain, percussive
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> on the furnace pipe. This old
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> body hums. My knee aches
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> and I try to remember where
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> I put the cane. I remind myself:
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> weather changes. This land
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> will be dry again. There will
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> be drought.
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> Come back.
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