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94 pam rehm Winter Psalm You have stood winter evenings You would think I could pray and I seem to have a yearning feeling and uncertain intervals Here, geese flying over, streams of snow water you cannot imagine following All the world the ripple curl pure The wonderful purity of everything simultaneously fraught with the cold CRSUM09 poetry.indd 94 5/22/2009 12:37:04 PM 95 Want swarms but does not warm me The way following nothing but the sound of a stream does CRSUM09 poetry.indd 95 5/22/2009 12:37:04 PM 96 You wander a little farther The beauty there is in winter trees And then we walk on together the luster of stones iced over CRSUM09 poetry.indd 96 5/22/2009 12:37:04 PM 97 Should we keep each other warm enough we might walk through half a forest of leaflessness and dried specimens The exchange of lungs for wind of eyes for the snow’s depth of the mind for such valor as this remote interior holds on to CRSUM09 poetry.indd 97 5/22/2009 12:37:04 PM 98 The only bridge our stream has is sufficient only to our jumping across See how many traces each human life expresses CRSUM09 poetry.indd 98 5/22/2009 12:37:04 PM ...

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