Perhaps he will not return. But what we have lived omes back to us. We see more. We feel, as our rings increase,
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Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.
Poems present their testimony as circumstantial evidences, not as closing argument.
Fire he sang,
that trees fear, and I, a tree, rejoiced in its flames.
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