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Sixty

Christian Century,  Feb 26, 2008  by Diana Cole

Sixty

   More than half taken up
   on the reel, the tape
   plays Mozart's Requiem.
   By my front walk
   three crocuses, blue
   with saffron suns, thrive-
   an early spring's pledge.

   At the same time
   snow is falling.
   It flies aloft
   as if some dandelion clock
   has blown apart ahead of season;
   not a winter's spite.

   The reel takes up the slack
   of the Lacrymosa
   and I take on the year

   its space
   its flow
   its breath.

   Benedictus.

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