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The Story of Motion

And the sea swings
Agitated with alternates.

The wind is the unseen mover,
And the clouds
         the puffed up population,
Fading and wilting,

Taught of a star's set course
We await evaporation .

We are at the mercy of the spring,
         that unwinding.

Iam devout to ripples
To rivers
To whipping leaves,
To the blurred machine
To the hand's vehicles.

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