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"First Snow."

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A rabbit has stopped
on the gravel driveway.

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Imbibing the silence, you
stare at spruce needles.

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There's no sound
of a leaf blower,

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no sign of a black bear.

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A few weeks ago, a
buck scraped his rack

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against an aspen trunk.

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A carpenter scribed a plank
along a curved stone wall.

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You only spot the
rabbit's ears and tail.

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When it moves, you locate
it against speckled gravel.

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But when it stops,
it blends in again.

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The world of being
is like this gravel.

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You think you own a car, a
house, this blue, zigzag shirt.

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But you just borrow
these things.

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Yesterday, you constructed
an aqueduct of dreams

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and stood at Gibraltar,
but you possess nothing.

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Snow melts into a
pool of clear water.

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And in this stillness,
starlight behind daylight

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wherever you gaze.

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