maybe a week (it's all one poem)

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    maybe a week(its all one poem)

    john martone

    samuddo / ocean2012

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    maybe a week(its all one poem)

    copyright 2012 by john martonesamuddo / ocean

    ISBN 978-1-105-66433-5

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    maybe a week(its all one poem)

    for Giselle Maya& Malcolm Ritchie

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    driftwood

    chick peas

    transplanting

    truck

    axle

    duckweed

    rain barrels

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    driftwood

    driftwoodall youimagine

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    driftwood branchhelps youup

    rain toocoming & goingdriftwood

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    wildcherry

    bushhoney

    suckledrift

    wood

    maple keyson maple keysdriftwood

    driftwood getting familiar w/ clover

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    driftwoodfishermenhavent a clue

    all you can showfor todaydriftwood

    nobodys raft now driftwood

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    a human climbsup from the riverall driftwood

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    theresonly

    oneperson

    theresonly

    onedriftwood

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    dusk alls eithermother of pearlor driftwood

    one time knewarchaic wordfor driftwood

    at dusk

    human eyesturn to driftwood

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    the sun comes to an end in driftwood

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    the waves signature driftwood

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    one thought& the nextdriftwood

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    chick peas

    my hopesouth windowschick peas

    all of us

    unlikelychick pea

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    planting chick peas took me60 years

    my bag

    of marbles chick peas!

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    not of the cold world chick pea seedling

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    my day one

    jointof a

    finger chick

    peaseedling

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    last nights dreama chick pea seedlingsblanket of roots

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    chick pea seedlingsyouve never seenthe flower

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    transplanting

    first yr fingerthen seedling goes inthen close it

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    squat calmclod of earthcrumbling

    transplanting them you lose yr balance

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    workboots of coursepinching

    workboots

    of coursethey fit

    mud-cakedboots thoseanchors

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    hose springinga leak inspring mist

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    old bonespopping

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    spring nightfallshovel stillstands in earth

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    truck

    you have to renta truck & haulit all somewhere

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    if you could justplow the houseunder

    fountain pen & all the rest gone

    everything but the driftwood hauled-off

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    driftwood& gardenhouse empty too

    emptied out house

    & found yrsweater button

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    house emptied-outhappens to bea full moon

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    axle

    dogwood cut-downprairies

    axle

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    you digout

    a treestump

    andthe day

    begins

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    stump comes out& burlapclothes

    like anyone else you begin to forget

    those hostas dont belong here either

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    you & a pickaxe all these years

    you swing a pickaxe when the churchbells stop

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    duckweed

    this body

    isnt yr bodyduckweed blooms

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    the smallestknown islandsduckweed

    not evena fingerprint duckweed

    duckweed time forbluets

    8 minutes latersunlight turns toduckweed

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    forgettingall peoplebe duckweed

    duckweed bloom

    each onea refuge

    surface tensionunbrokenduckweed

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    duckweed

    stay here

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    duckweedgetting closeto cosmic rays

    duckweed

    close yr eyes& see duckweed

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    nothingweighs you downduckweed

    duckweed everyonewalks on water

    duckweed just looking

    is drowning

    duckweeda curefor drowning

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    rain barrels

    mind all the dirt youve tracked in

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    this rain barrel another country

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    an oldroof

    rainbarrels

    a rainbarrel

    at eachcorner

    justhis size

    rainbarrel

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    howmanydays

    of yrlife

    gone

    intothis

    rainbarrel

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    littlebook

    rainbarrel

    earths

    orbit rim of

    a rainbarrel

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    all thosehydrogen bondsrain barrel

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    liftingmy

    rain

    barrel

    liftingmy

    gardenbuddha

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    rain barrels& a kayak thats his place

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    all yr sinsno hope butrain barrels

    rainbarrelsprove

    theresno soul

    rainbarrels

    inshadows

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    a rainbarrelcompass

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    rain barrelthink of allthose toy boats

    his riddle rain barrelsalso raft

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    rainbarrelshis

    island

    home

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