the revolution of everyday life

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twigs... pebbles...
shards of glass...
even scattered,
suffice as nest.
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.

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perhaps life
itself was
the fissure.
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messiahs,
if messiahs there were,
grew slowly,
had to be tended with care.
although he suspected
that any fruit they might bear
was already to be found,
full and ripe, in the hole
into which the seed
had fallen.
.
.

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gently lifting the veil,
he discovered the obvious:
nothing had been hidden after all.
.
.

137



in spite of everything,
the sky always found its place —
even when scattered across the lawn.
.
.

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silence too
was waiting
to be slayed.
.
.

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needing something warm to drink,
he put an empty tea bag
into an empty cup
and let it steep.

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the time had come
to let the world
dictate his vision

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Just so you know...

all images and text © Michael Tweed