<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Joan<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>Dec. 20<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">The Poet’s Promis</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">by Joan Myles<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">In language I live</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">and in living I linger--</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> Her world is defined and exists
in language. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">From simple words like finger or
sieve.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">These words are full of meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">A<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>single word can connote so many different meanings. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Simple and complex. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">A sliver of love. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Wow? What could prove the point
more.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Sliver and love<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>where each word defines the other. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">A sliver<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>can mean paucity<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>or hope.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">A sliver of love is all she needs.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">He offered only a sliver oflove.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Living silvery river. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">A beautiful sounding phrase. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">There is so much possibility in this
phrase. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">You can look down at it. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">You can be emersed in it. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Quick silver is deadly, while it is
beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">So it depends on<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>your perspective. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Either within or above, or besides <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">or any other perspective you can
experience it from.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">These are all concepts that define our
lives<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>as much as the so called concrete facts of
what exists. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">It is all in the language.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">a finger </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">a sieve</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">a sliver of Love</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">--living silvery river</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">within and above</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div>