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Bonnie J. Toomey's avatar

The rhyme and motion of words and the conservation of words and imagery is powerful. It’s how I feel when the summer people go home and you can hear yourself once again.

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Nora O’Dowd's avatar

“Sound that spoke me awake” Lovely!

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Diggy Writes's avatar

Beautifully capturing this season's feeling that I've never been able to put into words.

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Corie Feiner's avatar

I love that it is an awakening happening in the season associated with comfort, slowness, and slumber.

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Dave Mead's avatar

Although we are now in the depths of winter, I felt that poem as I read it. Absolutely beautiful, Joseph, thank you for sharing.

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