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and return each day for more
as if this is what they live for.
We make words for everything,
name every species we find,
but there’s no word for the distance
between the clumsy penguin-like birds’ desire
to nest in the crags,
the long-necked Cormorants’ skill
for fishing the bay,
the sea lions’ bellies buoying
on the water,
and my urge to pitch into their world
and unmake myself.
The Seedlings
You are not alive
as I am alive
but it seems every minute
you are
climbing for the first time
