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What Do Rivers Dream?
The riverbed is sleepless because
It’s too dry to dream,
Fires burn down the forest died brown
From clouds too white to drink,
Hazy is the ash filled air
Choked thick with liquid heat,
The riverbed is sleepless because
It’s too dry to dream, but
What do rivers dream?
Rivers dream of the sea
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Northern People
Half of life we live in winter,
Northern people, northern people.
From a deep and dark October gray
Into March and freezing rain,
Half of life we live in winter
A third of life we silently sleep,
Quiet and deep, quiet and deep.
Half that time we’re bundled under
Winter blankets completely covered,
A third of life we silently sleep
All of life we pass away,
Day to night, night to day.
For even in the waking summer
Drifts of winter sleep forever,
All of life we pass away |
