EAGLE-EYE TREASURES<\/b><\/p>\n
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\u201cLook up,\u201d you say, \u201cthere is water on both sides of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n
and there is- an expanse of glimmering blue- I\u2019m lost in it<\/p>\n
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\u201cLook,\u201d you say another time, \u201cMoss on rocks. Frozen streams.\u201d<\/p>\n
and these are a few tender handfuls of my favorite things.<\/p>\n
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Tenderness like the way you pick mullberries<\/p>\n
the way you hand them to me in my white dress<\/p>\n
our fingers stained purple with sweet satiation<\/p>\n
drifting out of time and back to our innocence<\/p>\n
if only for a treasured twilight moment<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Tenderness like the way you catch fireflies<\/p>\n
cupped in your palms and give them to me<\/p>\n
because I\u2019ve always been too awestruck<\/p>\n
and fretful of accidental firefly injury<\/p>\n
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and I could go on, too, all these small gentle ways<\/p>\n
you give love to the whole universe from the center of yourself<\/p>\n
like the way you prepare a meal, and also<\/p>\n
the way you know when your friends are hungry<\/p>\n
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Tenderness like those words you never heard<\/p>\n
like the words you still worry to feel and stumble to say,<\/p>\n
and glitch to hear but still not in a good way<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
so we have three taps instead and sometimes two more<\/p>\n
because these things are armfuls of love already by themselves<\/p>\n
moments without the need for a single superfluous word<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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