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Before Thereafter


“Why”

said the river,

refusing to run

 

“The mountain’s

on fire,

 snow all but gone

 

“Beginning

or ending,

  truth is the same

 

“The start

in the finish 

—loss in the gain”

 

(The New Room: November, 2021)

 

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