I am full of bewildering awakenings. I stare at the faraway collision of tree-blur where every moment vanishes. I hear a stirring.

The stippled trunk curves left, almost as thin as my wrist, its branches bowing toward the rain-matted grass.

Diamond-bright, Jupiter rides the moon’s crown, Distant harmony describing the immeasurable,

And years from now, she’ll tell herself this was a moment—a moment

your plum-rounded face and your plum- darkened pupils, soft

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It begins as a whisper in a lonely place high up among the bracken and the sedges, unnoticed, trivial.

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