I will spare them the ceiling
\nspare them the sheets,
\nand the clumsy tumble in between,<\/p>\n
but outside, two cats fought
\nsomething epic on the back steps<\/p>\n
a bird hatched and, night-blind,
\nfell to its death<\/p>\n
my good shovel was stolen
\nbut not the radio<\/p>\n
a street light was out
\nmy neighbors were home.<\/p>\n
And even though I have always felt sad for the leaves
\nthat would never know the trees again,<\/p>\n
for the way nothing in nature
\napologizes when one piece dies so the whole can live,<\/p>\n
I have stopped keeping the leavings,
\ncan look at a shell like my hair in the bathtub<\/p>\n
and not make it bloat with meaning.
\nI shook out all the pressings darkening the pages of my dictionary,<\/p>\n
I used a hand-trowel
\nto bury the dead bird.<\/p>\n
See? No fumbled buttons,
\nwrithing, gasps, shared breathing,
\nI\u2019ve kept my word.<\/p>\n
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