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Recorded Reading (0:57): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xdg7lcwod779679wvo1ei/Spring-Up.mp3?rlkey=x3d1ufbv1yllispdcgv38577a&dl=0

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Spring Up

After the storms came helter-skelter
After we huddled in each shelter
Separate even from those
In better times we had held close
Hording desperate resources
Against entropy’s dark forces
Nor further afield aspire
Than our own household’s warming fire

Then came again th’ eternal gift
Weary spirits to uplift
Blankets of emerald green
Appearing over everything
Formerly bare, sear and dry
Embroidered lovely blossoms by
Bringing th’eternal cyclic news:
After each winter, Life renews!

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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