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words on a screen/sitting close together/ far apart

out there nothing/inside a summer's night/ everything

she loosens her hair/silky & black/the night embraces me

shadows merge/how gentle the darkness/consuming day

midnight rain/an unmoored canoe/rocks endlessly

everywhere/evidence of last night's storm/awakening

mayflies/a frenzy of life/and death

tender buds/their moment arrives/and so does the bee

summer nears/a maple seed seeks its place/spinning round and round

a line of pines/each finding its own angle/summer squall

autumn waters/deep inside the current/stillness

limbs yield/the final leaves let go/winter prevails