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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

Ruins


As consciousness persuades the industrious toward
mercantile achievement, the mindful ponder

their sourceless unrest.  Their morning starts
in beauty and beauty rubs their chests, rubs

our chests.  A thought is carried from man
to daughter and from son to wife:   dragged along

the temporal exchange, a thought is carried
that rubs our chests.  She can now return

to the ruined site of what was once
her father's grandfather's short-lived life—

but the stones have moved apart, his enterprise
repealed, his reflections scattered, adrift and
	unrevealed.




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