Once I loved you only a few minutes a day.
Now it is smoke rising, the mushroom left by the birch,
the horse’s forefoot, the way the minnow stirs silver
as he turns carrying his world with him.
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The Wagon and the Cliff
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The pin fails, and the wagon goes over the cliff. The doctor steps out a moment and the boy dies. We might question Emerson about this moment. Please don’t imagine […]
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