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Jul 2022
when the sun might set forever
and the anywhere of where you are
might just be the right place at that
moment to be, so long as you
take a long pauseβ€”maybe waiting
on the crosswalk while that last car
swings past right at the red, or
maybe watching the elevator
ping to ground level and letting
the old woman step out first
with her bagsβ€”and use that
silent moment to see the Sun again
and notice it there even now,
this late in the game, and if it
can hang as heavy as a thousand
earths a thousand times over
up there in that big stretch
of sky and space then so can you,
right there
wherever you are.
Written by
Craig Verlin  San Francisco
(San Francisco)   
140
   guy scutellaro
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