to retire when the task is accomplished
is the way of heaven
to retire
seamlessly extracting one’s fingers
as if they had never been in the pie
to retire
in time
to sink back into landscape
just as the sky is breaking
is the way
but it’s lonely waiting
in gathering darkness
with nothing to say
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