when falling into the trust of your body,
(brown-eyed camera, its window perpendicular
to the world) a nod of self-understanding
forgives greed

not every uncle is who he seems,
ersatz ermine wraps itself around your neck
and still the escapement delivers
power to the pendulum

the tingling you�ve felt recently in your joints
is the after-effect of crabby dreams, the failure
of introspection � find the person who loves you
dressed in green

study the metaphoric value of feeding
your friends, forgo baths for rambling raw rains,
seek poems in freedom-loving faces

if you carry pebbles from the stream
in your cheeks, to roll your words around

�����your fingers will count
�������������������������magic numbers

��������������������������������(no more radiation,
����������������no more losing seasons)


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