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stone talks

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stones worth having

i know we have collected these too but beefier stones are in our dwellings and in our marrow in clusters and on their own     i remember the two of us carrying carrying carrying stones     i remember how it was that as stones are too considerable and uncomfortable to carry so can they be too tiny and fragile to be comfortable to carry carry carry     we never take containers to contain stones somehow (why is that)      we never seem to mean to pick up pebbles stones rocks      but we do     we always do     your hoard is huge and consists of numerous little clumps  parcels chains in the rooms of your palace     on tables and shelves     sequences of stones making sense in strings      in your office     being itsy-bitsy mountain ranges     in your garden    orderly geotic dumps      mine are less but take up more space than i give     small meandering and unsettled riverbeds     stones on floors and in front of doors (i dust and soap and wash)     on fish tank beds     fluent and unwrinkled tiger eyes watch      on verandas and balconies noting insects in a lazy laid back stoned way     in pots with plants guarding  watching     on a stool in my kitchen sitting also together with a spattering of chatty vases     on the table out back where we sit and read or catch the sun     just lying down for a change and resting doing nothing     like us    and strange    they stay neatly in their messy and harmonious jumble     if one should be moved you would notice     like you did when you moved castle     we all looked for that one smallest stone (no bigger than a wad of gum) for weeks months      i'm sure you still look out in case in case just in case (the loss of the stone     we all have that) we have rules un-uttered on stones      we may touch and love but we may and will not remove we gift stones we ask for stones that don't belong to us     and we receive     we receive     and they look like this: baby humble insufficient mini shrimp and wee     and they look like this: fat massive mature serious influential and huge      holes make them interesting making them whole      by chance holes have stones inside oh delightful miracle of miracles     some more pebble perhaps     some more stone

we never get enough of the talk of stones

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