So Completely Filled

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The peaches and cream colored sunrise

I watched on hilltop this morning

made me hungry,

so I started back

toward home the long way.

Through the forest, along uneven trails of earth and stones

and the river; the quiet, winding river 

I have traced so many times upon my lovers back;

each curve and bend

a fractal ode to the persistence of Life's pattern.

This memory kept me warm

as the air turned grey and cold

and followed me to my little cabin,

wherein awaited a fire

and a cup of bitter tea.

Sipping 

   these 

      slowly

my insides rejoiced 

like a valley replenished by a flood,

and I wondered

on the temptress, sugar,

on the satiety of movement,

and how the graceful ways of Nature

can fill one so completely.

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