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(standing on the roof of myself)

i lean into wind—
(a thousand leaves teaching my eyes)

the world becomes smaller
and larger,
both at once.

tiny ants arrange their epic civilizations
in cracks of sidewalk dust,
and i am their god,
or their guest.

a girl with a red balloon
reminds the sky to breathe,

while distant mountains
perform their usual trick
of vanishing into the blue.

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