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In the Good Light

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James Crews
Jul 18, 2025
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In the Good Light
for Andrea Gibson

I find you again at sunset tonight

while clearing a fallen sugar maple

from the driveway, moving branch

after leafed-out branch, wondering

what made the tree collapse without

a breath of wind or storm to push it.

I hear your voice when I slip off time’s

handcuffs and pick wild raspberries,

letting each one fall into my …

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