The Dawns Frontier

While my bowl is still half full

you can eat out of it too

and when it is empty

just bury it out in the flowers

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All I want to be

is a thousand blackbirds

bursting from a tree

seeding the sky

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The moon put her hand

over my mouth and told me

to shut up and watch

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What is it the wind has lost

that she keeps looking for

under each leaf?

-- Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser

All in the Western Land

Circle around around the house

circle around and back

everything burning burning burning

everything burning black

O who will break the circle

O who will loose my hand

O who will be my lover

all in the western land

Open the circle around and out

and part and swing and pass

down along the valleys

and the yellow hills of grass

So make and break the circle

so take and loose my hand

so love and leave me dancing

all in the western land

--- Ursula K. Le Guin