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“Being Here” by Alan Fox

July 2, 2012Posted by Rattle

Alan Fox

BEING HERE

We each
need water.

We each
need pain.

We can sit
under shelter.

We can sit
in the rain.

—from Rattle #36, Winter 2011

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