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the war resumes

and other things have happened

Sandra Day O’Connor

news of fires

and a shooting

in my area

(we have both uncommonly

as if

ordinary)

but the war

and the war

and the skirmishes

quite literally

in other places

and the slayings

in the spirits

whose only perpetrator

is the hate

becoming means

as we wish our strangers

and our neighbors

nothing good

for our own pain

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and does hate laugh

above the world

while agents

of itself

are storming down

and shall the doves of peace

protest blow

while human agencies

get soaked

act on the rain

whose wind is somehow hot

ignoring what persists

upon the branches

the cooing of

a softened sadness

unbittered

calling still

for peace

upon the earth

we walk upon

we hate upon

below

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as far as

as near as

a dove can convict

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