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Only when the stream clears
can the pebbles at bottom be seen,
nestled in for no apparent reason—
a sudden current, a wind storm, a bird, deer hoof,
an act of gravity, hard as, soft as, gravity
tugging beneath a full moon.
 
The blackness of the pupils of the spotted owl’s eyes
mirrors everything we can’t think of.
And the blackness of the pupils of the spotted owl’s eyes
reminds us of our deepest fears,
but the feathers-- how to overcome them,
how to learn to go beyond even this landscape’s gravity.
 
Yesterday was a still and golden Sunday.
Today the prism sends its brilliance to the kitchen wall,
true colors flashing, sunlight on water
on the scales of a rainbow trout
swimming freely somewhere
where colors are what they are:
ways to hold light in different patterns.

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Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is well known in the circles of progressive poetry. He has contributed to Axis of Logic's Poetry Library many times. Mankh is a writer, small press publisher, and Turtle Islander. His new book of poems is Adam Had No Earthly Navel. You can contact him at mankh@allbook-books.com