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I am going to walk toward the sanctuary

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There is this:
the shadows moving
on the stones at the bottom of the pool;
how different the body of the insect
striding on the membrane
between light and dark.




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Take this
stone,
stone's mother
stone's father
stone child,
cool
in your palm.



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Grandfather,
there are students
for your bones.
They have held them,
seen the places of
attachment;
seen the breaks
and the healings.
Flesh is gone,
warm muscle,
brown eye,
white hair;
your bones,
I might have held them
for a moment,
held one, laid against
my cheek
and set it aside
well used,
let go,
untied,
loosened,
windswept,
open,
clean.
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