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Give and Take at Mirror Lake
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66 Give and Take at Mirror Lake —for Sue & Paul The water warms to the bones of feet, stars like stylized dancers in Bali gliding the ribs and oars of the boat. Lean and tense the moon comes and goes as a mouth murmurs into the back of Mirror Lake. Another of your childhood friends is rustling through the years, but no longer with the need to adjust to the cancer in her throat, says: “Think of it as something easy, simple—as loving the silence after clicking off a Late Night Movie.” For her you breathe in her darkness all of it For her you breathe out your light all of it Startling the rabbits and horses, dry poppy seeds explode on the hill. During the unannounced eclipse, your eye throbs with the glimpse of a girl swinging a basket, smiling as if strawberry picking with her prophet. ...