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Kneedeep as Leaves
Jim Culleny
Today, in a java shop
among caffeinators, wired, I
received a poem from a friend
whom I've known since
it didn't seem important
to understand friendshipBut now I do
and appreciate his calling me
into the world of this poem
(which is not his, but his
anyway because
he saw some truth in it
and supposed that
I might see it too)With thanks I add it to
other truths that have blown against my door
now piled kneedeep as leaves,
but less brittle, in fall///
