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This next poem is
entitled "Stones."

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It isn't pride.

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Is it?

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Keeps you there anchored
in your vast solitude.

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I know you can hurt
me if I let you,

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my feet have told me as much.

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When you let me have my way
with you I always wind up angry.

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You've stood the sun longer
than any of us could imagine.

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My hands strain
listening for the echoes

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of old burnt-out fires.

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The indifference other people
notice in you only blinds them.

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How many know you suffer each
change of the weather wearing

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an identical phase?

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It should be clear by now
you mean what you do not say.

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Now that I feel your
silence inside me

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I can realize your gravity.

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I will become sink to
the floor of myself,

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the very oceans where you
practice concentration

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and the soft elements
wear you down."

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