He was cleaning leaves for one at a time
was what he needed and a minute
before the two
brown poodles walked by he looked at the stripped-down
trees
from one more point of view and thought they were
part of a system
in which the dappled was foreign
for he had arrived at his own conclusion and
that was
for him a relief even if he was separated,
even if his hands
were frozen,
even if the wind knocked him down,
even if his cat went into
her helpless mode
inside the green and sheltering Japanese yew tree.
-Gerald Stern
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