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Pastured
Lesley Sieger-Walls


You learn much in a pasture,
one carved by water and wind.
 
You follow the form and hazard 
of dry cow paths,
deep footholds that bend you toward water,
toward a well you have witched.
 
The levels of a pond 
now reveal the land to you,
its plenty or its lack.
 
You hike its hills, 
where some see only its flatness.
To them, this is a great nothing. 
 
To you, a quiet fullness:
the history of deep-rooted grasses,
the shadow of a passing ocean.
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Photo by Imo Wegmann
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