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Tom Waits: Trouble's Braids

i’m starting to feel
like an old man
alone in a small boat
in a snowfall of blossoms,
only the south wind
for company,
drifting downriver,
the beautiful costumes of spring
approaching me
down the runway
of all i’ve ever wished for.

voices from long ago
floating across the water.
how to account for
my single obsession
about the past?
how to account for
these blossoms as white
as an autumn frost?
dust of the future

baptizing
our faithless foreheads.
alone in a small boat,
released in a snowfall
of blossoms.

--Charles Wright

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