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David Brooks

The Gap

The Gap

The Gap

On the pond path by Campbell’s
amidst the wheel-ruts and the fallen leaves
a gap nothing fills

it gets late

birds
cross in the half-light
lugging their haul toward Tumut
Bimberi
Kosciusko
the great lake of silence beneath them

flight after flight after flight
Close

The Gap

On the pond path by Campbell’s
amidst the wheel-ruts and the fallen leaves
a gap nothing fills

it gets late

birds
cross in the half-light
lugging their haul toward Tumut
Bimberi
Kosciusko
the great lake of silence beneath them

flight after flight after flight

The Gap

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