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serendipity
by b.a. wingate

Angel roots first broke the ground not apple
trees, Hemlock or lime. And it was rocks
that made rain, though back then opals bubbled
from the stone, droplets did not fall
from the sky. And it was the sky
that expressed fire from lightning—
charcoal took longer to evolve
and was squeezed from peach trees
during the inchoate pain of thunder.
In the end, it was the sodic dunes that burst open
and brought the stun of water.

2007

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