where are you?

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where
are
you?

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From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight,
And go with the hour.
                                   ---Alice Meynell
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okay, okay; time
for swallow friends to come back;
where have you gone? where?

I saw Great Blue on
this predawn morning's walk, but
nary a single

swallow;

I saw beaver so
busy at dawn---in ice-cold
waters, mind you!---at

woods' edge on the south
side of my backyard; but as
to happy, agile

fork-tails

at your normal haunts
under the roadway over-
pass? nary a one,

nary a one; have
you (somehow) forgotten me?
have I done something

in need of
forgiveness?

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