my sleeping fingers hear night rain

they sweep wide 

opening a window

my waking skin is dampened

smelling wakened soil

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my blood is pounding

melting runoff

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breathing it all in

deep as my lungs will take it

  tender buds

unfurl in my brain

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verde corazon

“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

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“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

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