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PELICANS, VOLCANOES

Facts: you are here,

and the fruit bowl.

And we imagine.

Grasses, fruit trees,

pelicans, volcanoes,

widen dreams.

Dream has not a rag

not momentously seen

or slightly imagined.

Beneath the thin skin

of the pool we walk on

lies sleep, creative.

Alan Marshfield

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