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No one understands love, no, no one.

The astral light in the impassive silence. No one.

 

No one understands music, no one, no.

How a single finger pressing a key releases a note.

 

No one understands the yellow light in the snapdragon,

or how vision meets itself in a bumblebee and knows.

 

No one understands joy, how it holds out its hand,

promising no more whens, thens or whys, only now.

 

Now I rise up in a new body, standing tall in the coneflowers.

Now I rise up in new body saying, “Now I know. I know.”

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