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Marguerite Bouvard

            Learning to Read

The lake is steeped
in meditation, gray silk

furrowed by sun-shot
clouds, the drowned

firs holding their breath.
We walk over pine needles

and dried leaves as we have
always walked

but never so drawn
into the somber glory

of these woods, oaks lifting
their naked arms, lichen

starring the gnawed off
stumps -- as if we were

reading breviaries
of yielding, of becoming.


[sculpture] small photo of sculpture: 'Insect III'
Karen Klein
Insect III
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Copyright © 2002 Marguerite Bouvard

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