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Kim Taplin

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Has she been whoring after strange gods?
How long has she been lost in the dark terra within?
She feels as though she has been in hospital

It has all been going on in my absence
she says, yearning, nostalgic

It is so still that leaves fall with an alarming slap
like people playing cards
Sycamore leaves are huge dropped stars
their stalks a childish vermilion
There are goldfinches on the brown burdocks
and everything is steeped
                                          in low gold light

So much to do!
She means to draw up a Bead Roll for all the creatures
She plans to chronicle tiny momentous shifts
She believes she may begin to learn
                                                          to pray quite differently

But first, just at first
she will want to wander about very slowly
and sit for long spells on low willow limbs
wrapped in a shapeless old tweed coat
and ask no questions, undertake no tasks

 

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