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From Braided Creek

by Jim Harrison & Ted Kooser

Under the storyteller’s hat
are many heads, all troubled.

Straining on the toilet
we learn how
the lightning bug feels.

Throw out the anchor
unattached to the rope.
Heart lifts as it sinks.
Out of my mind at last.


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