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you notice

you stopped touching

trees

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clots of smoke

greasy in the trees

of the valley

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rural post office

they don’t accept

plastic

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a lifetime of books

in boxes

on the curb

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we seek

separate

apertures

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closer to

the clouds our skin

tingles

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we stop

talking to listen

to the sprinklers

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condoning

the disturbance

a crow hops about

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poking through

the dirt thick shoots

of the potato

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