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vigil by tom clausen

31 Monday Aug 2015

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ears, fear, Finger Lakes, haiku, hidden, hiding, Ithaca, nature, New York State, photography, poetry, rabbits, stillness, summer, vigil, watchful

eye to eye
this constant vigil
just to be

stilled by fear

stilled
by
fear

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