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the present
    the inescapable now
    bitter cold buries secrets
    put away
    all promises of resurrection

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63.
    stark stolen sky
    no birds in flight
    in sight
    no sign that lush
    verdant life
    lay abundant
    here
    war ravaged
    our hills and mountains
    burns flesh to ash
    turns our water
    against us
    slaughters thirst
    makes our
    longings kill
    all is black
    coal black greed
    no way to choose life
    when greed
    brings the constant
    sound of death
    calling away
    deliverance

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64.
    daybreak
    night falling
    into blue shadow
    gray streaks
    as the trickster
    chases memory
    repeat
    tell
    the same stories
    until the past
    is left behind

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65.
    my world is green
    wild green
    green with no limits
    big bold green
    growing changing
    celebrates the
    green in things
    all green goodness

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66.
    fire so hot
    death so dry
    just ready
    to let loose
    fierce heat
    miles and miles
    of flames
    climbing hills and mountains
    felling trees
    calling all hearts
    to burn and break
    hold in memory
    lifelines gone
    a show of hands

Index of First Lines
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    again and again
    all fields
    all old souls
    autumn ending
    barren broken hill
    blackbirds
    bring Buddha
    burning body of love
    burning pain
    clouds dressed in gray
    daybreak
    earth spirit
    earth works
    equine whispering
    fierce grief shadows me
    fierce unyielding winds
    fierce winter cold
    fire so hot
    fly high
    go high up
    hard rain
    harsh winter wind
    hear them cry
    heavy heart
    here and there
    in the gray blue wash of dawn
    lingering twilight
    listen little sister
    mammoth caves
    migrating birds
    morning dawn
    mud sliding down
    my world is green
    night moves
    no crops grow
    on hallowed ground
    overlooking water
    pink and white oleander
    red beard
    renegades roam here
    returning to sacred places
    ritual places
    small horses ride me
    snow-covered earth
    softly treading black bear
    soil rich with lime
    sometimes falling rain
    stained black
    stark stolen sky
    star of david
    straight ahead
    sublime shadows of midnight
    such then is beauty
    sunken faces
    take the
    tap dancing
    the glory in old barns
    toward light
    turtle islands everywhere
    walking the long way home
    when the dawn
    when trees die
    wilderness within
    winds of fate
    wingspan wide
    with water

 
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