flourescent lights flickering on and off
so quickly it is not visible
seven hours we sit beneath them
from 9-4
and when we are robbed from our outdoor lunch meeting place
only to sit in more prisonmade chairs under more flourescent light
it is an ache/terror/irrateness
and i can pinpoint the moment
i leave this body
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of the waterworld:
UP HIGH: A woman hung clothes outside her partially submerged home in Pandu, India, Monday. Floods and landslides caused by relentless rains in northeast India have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than 1 million over the past week, officials said. (Utpal/Reuters)
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the wonder
of stepping out
into the silverfrost
of a moonspilled sky
