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Some Clicks Beyond Manar

Alan Gould

Mar 01 2013

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We lunched with three world citizens

    some clicks beyond Manar.

Ten thousand trees unsleeved their bark

in draperies of light and dark,

where trade was brisk with fairy wrens,

    October up to par.

We strolled with three wise heads, they showed

    us peace beyond Manar,

where cumquats glowed like neon eggs,

a brown dog loped on sapling legs,

banksias, hatted à la mode,

    served bees with savoir-faire.

 

We talked of making books and homes

     light years beyond Manar.

Our talk, our listening had an essence

allowing each to show full presence,

for Eden’s in the chromosomes

     Some clicks beyond Manar.

Alan Gould

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