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May/June 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 3 • Nature’s Nature |

Boulders and Bedrock

By Tricia Knoll

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Let me walk my sadness to those boulders
downslope from my window — 

do I hear them whisper? Does relief
rest in stolidity?

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