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This entry was posted on 3/29/2008 8:52 PM and is filed under Poems.

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• 4/14/2008 6:47 PM Anonymous wrote:
  Reminds me of John Steinbeck's 'East of Eden'. and also 'Divine Attention'
  
  The sky opens its irresistible arms
  saying, You will remember me
  as deeper than sleep. The beginning,
  for there is one, is always simple:
  a prairie edged with trees that close
  like a door behind you.
  The path rises and falls like the body
  of a woman, a man, then suddenly branches.
  Stay calm, the sky counsels,
  there is no need to choose,
  you can follow them all at the same time
  and here there is no such word as lost.
  Soon you are so deep
  reason disappears like a bird into thick foliage,
  daily life stalls,
  your son's face blurs
  although you swore you would never forget him.
  Is this the time to mention the man
  nearly double your weight
  who travels inside your body,
  the exchange of breath,
  or the tremors that mock the branch
  where the flown bird lit?
  If you care to look, you will see nothing,
  but this you already know
  as you know his eyes have deepened
  to a certain shade of green you willingly enter
  as if it were a place.
  You feel there is no end to this:
  you feel it as a violet sky
  burning down the edges of the Earth,
  you feel it pathless, rolling like prairie
  past the shallow islands of the clouds,
  out past every undiscovered planet,
  you feel it as a failure of language,
  as absence, deep space
  that offers the eye no place to stop.
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• 4/30/2008 9:32 PM hannah wrote:
  Love it.Thanks.
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