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Recorded Reading (1:13): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2gdfex48vg5t3ejjw8hxd/Together.wav?rlkey=1mlxzq025x4w3j1s505im1j44&dl=0

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Together

They flew one hundred yards apart
Two birds of single feather,
Two hawks of but one noble heart,
Although apart, together

By habit and by preference
Companionably flew
In awe, respect and deference
To the beauty that they knew

He loved to watch the setting sun
Gilding gold her wings
This wondrous mate that he had won ~
His posture told her many things

The turning of his regal head
As she graceful glided
Spoke deep regard of she he’d wed
Nuanced, many-sided

On air-sprung floor, high overhead
They did their lovely dance ~
Each turn of every feather said
How glad they were of their romance

Few wedded partners hereamong
Hath this poet often seen
Throughout a lifetime passing long
Such serenity between

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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