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Why Worry


A propos, particularly now.

Why Worry

and pine for what is not,
all the beauty now dust,
the sad terrible waste,
when we are mere particles of stardust,
here for an instant,
then on to unimaginable other planes.

But oh, look,
how this stardust can manage to capture the light
just so,
then radiate within us,
before pouring forth in turn to others,
wherever it might find a home.

To illuminate some dark distant moment
we cannot know,
allowing whomever it might reach
to do the same.





Impossible Gardens

Somewhere between the Canna lilies and the Delphinium Blue King, he started in on mask wearers. A local, I could tell, the turns of phrase and the mandatory team jersey. He had already launched into his rant when I pulled my truck into the lot of the garden centre, sermonizing before a small sullen crowd about the Nano particles …
Impossible Gardens

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