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Maybe Alone On My Bike | ||
by William Stafford | ||
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I listen, and the mountain lakes | ||
hear snowflakes come on those winter wings | ||
only the owls are awake to see, | ||
their radar gaze and furred ears | ||
alert. In that stillness a meaning shakes; | ||
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And I have thought (maybe alone | ||
on my bike, quaintly on a cold | ||
evening pedaling home), Think!-- | ||
the splendor of our life, its current unknown | ||
as those mountains, the scene no one sees. | ||
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O citizens of our great amnesty: | ||
we might have died. We live. Marvels | ||
coast by, great veers and swoops of air | ||
so bright the lamps waver in tears, | ||
and I hear in the chain a chuckle I like to hear. |