tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807202432127452192024-02-08T08:55:13.094-08:00Dreams of Earth and ResurrectionPoems, Songs, and Other WritingsAmanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280720243212745219.post-58022270532619552582012-04-08T19:48:00.001-07:002012-04-08T19:51:29.620-07:00Child of the Faith's Father<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Child of Faith's Father</b></span><br />
<b>April 9, 2012</b><br />
<br />
"God sends rams<br />
to all Abrahams,<br />
or at least<br />
to my Isaac and me,"<br />
So I laugh, giddily<br />
at God's feast.<br />
<br />
Genesis 22<br />
Romans 4:16Amanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280720243212745219.post-64877195914328974672012-03-06T05:06:00.000-08:002012-03-06T05:06:02.191-08:00Following God Together - Apart.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Following God Together - Apart.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>February 2012
</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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O Lord, our eyes are fixed on You,</div>
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And we’ll
move when You move,</div>
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But O Lord,</div>
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It’s foggy today;</div>
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Where have You painted Your pillar of cloud</div>
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On this
canvas of gray?</div>
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Or, Lord,</div>
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We’re passing through flame,</div>
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And as to in which fiery column you glow,</div>
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How can we know?</div>
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<br /></div>
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We roam</div>
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These paths we thought You
called us to—</div>
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Is that a dead end ahead,</div>
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Or only a sharp turn?—Or does
the path forge through?</div>
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Lord, wouldn’t longer straights </div>
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And fewer tracings-back</div>
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Constitute a wiser track</div>
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Home?</div>
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<br /></div>
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And when?—</div>
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When, when, when?—</div>
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Will our paths meet again?</div>
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And not just meet, but
cleave?</div>
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The sun’s hidden up heaven’s sleeve,</div>
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And I’ve lost count of turn after turn—</div>
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Are You leading us farther or nearer again?</div>
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Our hearts burn.</div>Amanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280720243212745219.post-1172425619819712172012-03-06T05:01:00.002-08:002012-03-06T05:03:56.829-08:00Incarnation<b><span style="font-size: large;">Incarnation</span></b><br />
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<b><i>November 2011</i></b><br />
<br /></div>
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You can read
the figures</div>
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You can read
the news</div>
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People
aren’t numbers</div>
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It’s your
attitude (that’s flat)</div>
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<br /></div>
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How can we
know if we don’t go?</div>
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How can we
know if we don’t stay?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Incarnation
grips me</div>
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and takes me to the city</div>
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Incarnation
grips me</div>
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and leads me far away</div>
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<br /></div>
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I want to
breathe the air</div>
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I want to
eat the fare</div>
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I want to
walk the dirt</div>
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with feet like yours.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I want to
learn your words</div>
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I want to
know your name</div>
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What if I
feel the pain</div>
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of feet like yours?</div>
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<br /></div>
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But
incarnation grips me</div>
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when I see Him:</div>
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Swaddled up
in skin,</div>
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Rode a
skeleton…</div>
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<br /></div>
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With a heart
of meat,</div>
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He was made
of dust –</div>
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like the rest of us.</div>Amanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280720243212745219.post-51035296372559253462012-01-29T06:01:00.000-08:002012-01-29T06:02:59.821-08:00Break Me and Bless Me<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Break Me and
Bless Me</span></span></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fall 2010<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Verse 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You speak and it’s unclear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My heart is clenched with fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That what You said is what You really mean.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I cannot answer Yes, Lord,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For my heart, it seeths with greif,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I cannot make myself believe that You would speak this
pain.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chorus<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Through the long night, don’t let go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though the day breaks, don’t let go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fight with me, wrestle with me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Never give in to me: break me and bless me.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Verse 2<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Your power is unmatched,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Your strength beyond compare,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And You will bring Your will to come to pass.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Still I fear You’ll let me win, Lord,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But I cannot acquiesce</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">O bitterest Friend, match blow for blow – don’t abandon me
to my strength:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chorus<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bridge<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">God of Jacob, my Portion, my Passion,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ladder of Jacob, Who opened the heavens,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Spirit Who came down and who remains:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Peniel, Pen’el, uncover Your Face,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lead me to Bethel from this desolate place;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My soul thirsts for You, the Living God.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chorus 2<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“In the morning, the fleece was wet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the morning, the fleece was dry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And Moses could not run away from the burning bush.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Come and flood My throne with tears,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Come and match your strength to Mine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For I will not let you break away from Me.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chorus</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>Amanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280720243212745219.post-63137404805941013552012-01-20T08:05:00.000-08:002012-01-20T08:05:08.850-08:00Test Track<a href="http://soundcloud.com/dreamsofearth/test-track?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=blogger&utm_content=http://soundcloud.com/dreamsofearth/test-track">Test Track</a>Amanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280720243212745219.post-43747358517927798182012-01-11T17:24:00.000-08:002012-01-11T17:31:15.022-08:00Cambodia Seems Dusty<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 20pt;">Cambodia Seems Dusty</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif;"> To you whom God calls here<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> Does the day start when the roosters crow?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <i>Seems so</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> The day awakes before the
sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The sun is <b>strong,</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">the rain is <b>strong,</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and the heat
is <b>strong</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In the villages, the people are <i>friendly</i>—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and <i>weathered</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">And everyone comes from the
villages,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Where the rice fields lie </span><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">flat</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">lollipopped</span><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; position: relative; top: -2pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">with <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">coconut
trees <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and palm
trees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The buildings are <b>bold</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">bright <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">blue and red
and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">orange and
green and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">traffic
median-paint yellow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The buildings are <b><span style="color: grey;">muted</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">wood and
faded thatch, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">rusty metal
roofs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The background is <b>bright</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">rice-green
to shame lawn-care, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">tropically flowering-fruiting-and-flourishing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">forests and
fields,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">farms,
yards, gardens, and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">painted pots.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The background is <b>drab</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">dust-ridden
paved roads, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">dust-red
dirt roads, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">bare-trampled
yards, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and
construction zones. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br clear="all" />
</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The people are <b>rich</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">See the
thousand rooftops <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">‘round the
royal palace? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The people are <b>poor</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">we see the young
ones, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">see the old
ones on the street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The past is <b>bleak</b>—<i>years</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">of power
struggles, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> land-grabbing, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">and terror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The past is <b>glorious</b>—because<i>…</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Who has
built such <i>temples</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The future is <b>dark</b>—<i>fears</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> of
corruption and prostitution <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> ever
ensnaring, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> stripping
the richness of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> land
from all people and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> twisting
it into the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">pockets <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> of
a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The future is <b>bright</b>—because<i>…</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The people
are <i>building</i>, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">The church
is <i>dawning</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">And after all, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">what is the <b>miracle</b> of man but <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">bones out of
<i>dust</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> tendons out of <i>dust</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> flesh out of <i>dust</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> beating
heart full of <i>dust</i> dissolved in rain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> running
red only by the hands of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> God</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; letter-spacing: 2.7pt; position: relative; top: -3pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; position: relative; top: -3pt;">And we know:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> God’s hands are still moving,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> And</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> <i>Cambodia</i>
<i>has a lot of dust.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><i>Christmas 2011</i></span></div>Amanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280720243212745219.post-15676534451906928132012-01-11T16:46:00.000-08:002012-01-11T17:31:52.623-08:00I Saw Flies<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I saw flies<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">hoarding on the chapped, sandy bones <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">and beak, demorphing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">into maggots who, crawling tail-first,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">reconstruct<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">the flesh they consumed, and curl into <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">eggshells, borne away <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">by flies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />Vultures, too bear gifts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">from afar; they cough up chunks of unrotting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">meat to reverently<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">replace – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">refitting one piece, then another to untear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">into the surgeon’s puzzle of flesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Wind sweeps backward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">through the desert, moistening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">flesh and skin, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3280720243212745219" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">fastening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">with unseen fingers: wind-parched, sun-bleached pilgrim feathers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">that journeyed long to their source – fastening,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">like a dandelion puff in reverse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The sun saturates<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">their tones, until the eagle, glowing golden, rises<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">to its scaling feet, eyes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">swelling to refill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">sockets, and lunges at the skies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I saw smoke <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">falling to where flames lick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">ashes and birches charred to dust, leaving <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">heartwood, sapwood, bark, leaves;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">And saw flames floating, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">assembling dust into the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">alignment of a rosebush,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">and burning it alive, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">precipitating petals <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">and thorns out of air.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ran down to the churchyard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dug up the graves: father, grandmother, great-great aunt,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sat down, and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Watched<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As first to one here, then to another there:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Bones out of dust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Tendons out of dust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Flesh out of dust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Beating heart full of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">dust dissolved in rainwater,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">now running red.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I never saw <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">skin spread itself on faces <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">until the day I saw my great-great grandmother,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">beautiful, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">lying Eden-naked in her coffin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">breathing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">And yet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I forgot her <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">when I saw <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Him.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>February 2011</i></span></div>Amanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280720243212745219.post-25378762325928765162011-12-31T10:03:00.001-08:002012-01-11T17:33:07.705-08:00Dreams of Earth<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">I remember the day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">That
it crystallized in my mind:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wilderness,
unadulterated:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Exception</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Until that day,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Although I hadn't
known)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">My Little House
dreams still hovered,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jumbled around the
mumbled snatch,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">"<i>Go West,
Young Man</i>,"</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Behind my head.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tragedy</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">, I groaned,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tragedy of
adventure,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tragedy of the
Commons (Lawn).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">What once was
shrouded, treed</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">We now share with seven
billion,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mystery consumed.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">And my dreams to
tread the newborn skin of snow</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Crunch beautifully
in the ear</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Only to the one who
can ignore</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">The other six
billion, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nine
hundred ninety-nine million,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nine hundred
ninety-nine thousand,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nine hundred
ninety-nine</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dreamers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><i>2010</i></span></div>Amanda Hayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11911784645762618545noreply@blogger.com0