Yard Saints
THE STANDING WAVE
a night book of the still pond
William Vincent Carleton
Touch the pond and it tells on you; leave it and it goes home to flat. Night shows what day pretends is only water. The body can do this too: sit until the pond returns, because stillness is not empty.
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