4.17.25

#2171

The present is like a tree

Whose branches sprout birds

Instead of leaves,

Who cannot fly or fall or leave

Like leaves of last fall.

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#2172

It isn’t the lighting we remember,

But the shadows.

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#2173

I said I spend a lot more time thinking

About doing than I thought.

She said, well, you do overthink things.

I said perhaps. I’ll think about it.

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#2174

I tie this knot.

I untie that one.

But it’s not a tie.

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#2175

It’s not that we stop seeing the new,

But that we can’t stop seeing the old.

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#2176

Grace has the energy of a question

And the ease of an answer.

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#2177

The sentimental is when a feeling

Tries to think.

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#2178

It is because the living and beautiful die

That they are alive at all.

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#2179

There’s no such thing as a substitute student.

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