1 
Times in the morning early 
when it rained and the long gray 
buildings came forward from darkness 
offering their windows for light. 

2 
Evenings out there on the plains 
when sunset donated farms 
that yearned so far to the west that the world 
centered there and bowed down. 

3 
A teacher at a country school 
walking home past a great marsh 
where ducks came gliding in -- 
she saw the boy out hunting and waved. 

4 
Silence on a hill where the path ended 
and then the forest below 
moving in one long whisper 
as evening touched the leaves. 

5 
Shelter in winter that day -- 
a storm coming, but in the lee 
of an island in a cover with friends -- 
oh, little bright cup of sun. 




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