When the world
Disappears under your feet
Are you falling or
Flying?
The crow will
Say one
Thing
The fox another
And both are
Right.
♦
Excerpted from Snake IV: Original Grace by Gary Lemons © 2021. Reprinted with permission of Red Hen Press.
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