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in the quiet may our healing begin

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Photo: Alex Lee-Jobe 

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 

LINK: Though from Here I Can’t Smell the Smoke, a …

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