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Coming to Terms

                      —for Pamela
There is a certain kind of strength 
in her, an obdurate and earth-like 
determination in living. 

She does not spoil herself 
with warmth or easiness. 
The hard road is her way.
 
She drives herself on it.
I want to reach out to her 
with tenderness and ease her. 

I want to say there is another 
kind of strength that flows
like water over stones, or roots 

nudging their way through earth,
or tender stems breaking into light.

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