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Late afternoon.
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Five miles around and up Gregory’s Bald
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in mid-October drizzle. The mud squishes
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under our shoes, earthworms squirming,
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acorns and animal pellets drowning.
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I crouch to fix an untied boot;
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when I stand up, you are gone.
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I’m alone with just
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the whisper of rain touching leaves.
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