Thoughts while watering flowers
Quiet.
Even the locusts have vanished,
taking their strange invisible castanets with them.
Where are the birds? Too silent, for June.
The longest day was yesterday.
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Thoughts while watering flowers
Quiet.
Even the locusts have vanished,
taking their strange invisible castanets with them.
Where are the birds? Too silent, for June.
The longest day was yesterday.
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