At dawn, in the great meadow, a solitude As easy as white p… - Charles Wright

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At dawn, in the great meadow, a solitude
As easy as white paint comes down from the mountains
To daydream, bending the grass.

I take my body, familiar bundle of sorrows, to be
Touched by its hem, and smoothed over . . .

There's only one secret in life that's worth knowing,
And you found it.

I'll find it too.

Charles Wright

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"Sitting at Night on the Front Porch"

I’m here, on the dark porch, restyled in my mother’s chair.
10:45 and no moon.
Below the house, car lights
Swing down, on the canyon floor, to the sea.

In this they resemble us,
Dropping like match flames through the great void
Under our feet.
In this they resemble her, burning and disappearing.

Everyone’s gone
And I’m here, sizing the dark, saving my mother’s seat.

It may not be written in any book, but it is written — You can’t go back,
you can’t repeat the unrepeatable.

He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.

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