in the quiet may our healing begin

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I don't bother much
with my poems from long ago
as an old man
I don't even read the poems of middle-age
I'm not really sure who wrote them
some other man not me
that man kept his mind too busy
to ever really be free
james lee jobe
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W.S. Merwin
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