Jasper, Feldspar, Quartzite

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Jasper, feldspar, quartzite, agate, granite, sandstone, slate.

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Some can be rounded, some not.

Some can be flaked, some not.

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A person too, hold her lines of possible fracture.

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Snow falls over the cities and mountains.

Cries of the late geese pass through it,

forsythia blossoms far inside their buds.

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Each pebble, each planet, gives off a recordable singing.

I have heard them.

Monastic the strangeness.

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Perhaps, through, that is the only destination -

beauty & strangeness.

Whose notes abandon the instruments that make them.

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~ Jane Hirshfield

art by Karla Nolan

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