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And I'll read one
more from the series

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of plots in my
ongoing conversations

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about gardening
with my neighbors.

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This is what happened
one afternoon.

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Beds (clay).

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We are on our knees.

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We are saying that the tulips
have had it hard this week.

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We are saying something about
the brightness and the dryness,

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and we're saying we
hope it will change.

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I press a finger into the loam,
flick the dust on my jeans.

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We are listening to
the snip of shears.

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I pick up a smooth small
disk of pink Sioux quartz,

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hold it like an avian
heart in the palm.

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It is a disk slipped
and beating from a time

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when all of North
America was under sea.

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My finger walks the buttery vein
that parses the stone in two

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and then in four.

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Its edges are under
siege, its end at the foot

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of suburban perennials.

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Do you have stones?

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Do you have stones?

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Someone is asking me do you
have stones where you are from.

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Do you have stones like these?

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We have purple
sunbirds I'm saying.

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And their hearts have four
rooms, one for every answer

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to questions like these.

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