(x = space)

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Standing By, Maybe Sitting

(maybe kneeling)

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So what do we know

From presence

Though it’s present

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Something outside ourselves

Is present

Staying close

Trying to pull us out

Into the world

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Remind us the making of it

Was community in motion

A nation of the angels

Then of us

Starting with two

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And the wives of Cain somewhere

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Miracle

And mysteries

Our bodies otherwise

Would form

Boundaries that won’t give way

Except for weapons

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But we know there is more

Through the intrusion

Of companionship

Wonderful companionship

Surprise at first

And then we might get used to it

For fondness

And for learning

Of the world

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A world

As we say

(paraphrase)

Of all the possibilities

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C L Couch

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Photo by David Tomaseti on Unsplash

(a candle for companionship)

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