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let’s go be children
in a tent somewhere

it need not be fancy
i’ll decorate it nicely

let’s find sticks on the ground
and make them our wands
and we’ll burn their tips
and write with the charcoal
on scraps of wood
or large, flat rocks
or anything
that will take what we draw

let’s go keep secrets,
like where the ramps rise in spring
and how to braid grasses in summer

let’s leave little treasures
like hummingbird homes
and constructed stone towers
in the clearings of trees.

let’s go find sunsets
and leave them where they lie
and watch the moon rising
together

see, i don’t need the things
i go out to find each day
i want to be cloistered and kept safe away
with a friend and a lover
and a sharer of food

let’s make adventures of music
and story
and art

and we can make forts
to sleep in

let’s go hide
in this great, big world
and never get lost again.

 

 

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