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PELICANS, VOLCANOES

Facts: you are here,

and the fruit bowl.

And we imagine.

Grasses, fruit trees,

pelicans, volcanoes,

widen dreams.

...

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

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