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Feathers


The sand is sifting slow and steady

My island drifting, I watch the eddies

Do without.  Things

Don’t live without

Hope

My hope I won’t leave behind

Can’t live without

It is a thing with feathers, so Dickinson says

Feathers so I can fly away

Leaving sand sifting slow and steady

Winging away from swirling eddies

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lizbethmmiller
<p>Here&#39;s hoping for a scholarship:)</p>

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