my baucis

I fear I fail you

and your anger at

times says I do

but unless the Source

The One

The All says otherwise

I will be with you

even as we pass

from the world

even as we putter

as shades

in some elsewhere

close at hand

so will we be always

tangled bare stalks

from the single root

rising

(for Ali)

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