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A food analogy: think before bruschetta when only a small slice of toast. To which your imagination plays from classic (sliced tomatoes with garlic, basil, and pine funs) to improv (slice of blue cheese, roasted pears, roasted walnuts, and perhaps roasted onion). Or marinated petite black figs w/fennel seed added to the sliced tomato. Yes, serious play. Best pared with the best of company.
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seem only to confuse
but a bite of something bitter
there's an awakening of the winter
when all things are supposed to sleep
but do not, not in the mudflats,
not on the walk back
not in this rain