I miss that old place
up on the hill and way
out there in the middle
of nowhere.
that creek sang to me
like an eager lover
all night through open
wavy-glass windows.
the sweetgum trees sighed
and shook their heads
at my young, unrooted,
and artless ways.
It is joyous and sad that
without me the arrowheads
still doze beneath the pebbles
in the creekbed,
the winters still wrap
the dry hayfields
and proud little house
in a quilt of silence,
and spring still pops
each year like an imp
from behind the clouds
to claim it all in the name
of No One In Particular.
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