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Listen!
ADVENTURE
pebble your adventure
has continued into my shoe
I can decide how far to carry you
based on when I choose
to end my discomfort
only yesterday it seems
you were a mountain looting
the sky for clouds and snow
you let the meltwater
dribble off and received
in return the ancestral spirits
those inhabitants of foothills
addressed to the shining summit
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and now look at me!
tumbling from his shoe
when he shakes it over the gutter
swept away with the others--
but don't count me out yet!
I know I can hang on to make it
down to a grain of sand
like my grandfathers
or to become dust troubling his eyes
or even to be that particle in his food
traveling past his gut
to strengthen his bones