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03.03.2019 by Chris Wilcox //

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wouldn’t it be nice
if i could
spring! ahead
to the part where
i’m sure as mid-summer
instead of tentative
as the thawing
of what may or may not be
the last frost

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if the distance between
the bud i am
and the bloom i’ll be
could be leapt as easily
as the hour we
assented
to twirl right past

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then again

if i wither instead

these long minutes
of restlessness
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and uncertainty
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and hope
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and possibility
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could be
the best long minutes
of what passes
(too quickly, they say)
for a life

This living requires an awful lot of getting comfortable with in-betweens, does it not? In fact, as far as I can tell, that’s practically all there is to it.

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