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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  The Evening Light Made Stern by Age


Her breath is the delicate anticipation
of need above the body's frequent sequences.
Now all things except the river are again
thinned by the slow conscription of our lives

and its stilled light.  As heartfelt renewal
pleases man and woman we tend to regret, as if
that were the consequence of our queer, impromptu
existence among the collected molecules.  Yet,

we can be content, even thankful, standing
freely in a flushed and retracting shadow near
the refuse-laden water's edge—finding a stilled
exhilaration.  We see other men in their trucks

and cars waiting to move; she disrobes before me
and displaces her content of the river while I bathe
      in the late, transitional grasses.



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