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Autumn Leaves

volume 5 number 6

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Moving

by John D. Berry

Breath comes faster, heft and thump of boxes,
Glow plug lights, diesel fires.

Highway lines, blur in diesel clouds,
Mountain passes, climb to clouds.

Miles unwind, State lines fall away,
OK, TX, NM, AZ, westering against the wind.

Breath comes faster, heft and thump of boxes,
This here, and that there, unpause and unpack.

Now, sun and oak hills, stroboscope of BART,
Rush and push of air, tunnel dark and light.

Busy city streets, feet clack and weave,
To the border lands, of campus boundaries.

Campus redwoods, Strawberry Creek,
Cool and bright, bustle muffles.

Redwoods, speak their truth,
Ruffling in the wind, and never mind.

Strawberry Creek, water laughs and tumbles,
Heading for no man's land, outside campus boundaries.

Water in sunlight, many feet of water striders,
Shift and weave, above the deeps.

Shadows of feet are cast, on sunlight creek bottom,
Larger than life,
Moving.

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