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The Morning I Choose to Dust the Bookshelf</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:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">by Joan Myles</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:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">the morning I choose to dust
the bookshelf</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:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">after too much rain and so
little caring</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:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">the garden gropes its way
through fog</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:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">and winter’s hush 
crowds the windows</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"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">It is winter. <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">She decides to<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>do something so mundane as to<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>dust the bookshelf. <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">The garden has too<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>much rain and pushes its way through the fog.
<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">Winter is a pall that surrounds the house. <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="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">ceramic birds merely imitate
flight</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:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">where have all the flowers
gone<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">Everything
seems artificial . <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">The
birds are fake.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>There are no flowers. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">She
misses<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>them.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;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;background:#607D8B">his grandmother’s mirth</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"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I don’t know who he is, <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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">so I don’t know whose grandmother<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>and whose mother that part of the poem is talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">   </span><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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Grandmother and mother could be the same person.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">   </span><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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">One person laughs about the winter while the other one is
frightened by it.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="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"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">In </span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">my mother’s fears</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="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">the silence conspires even as it consoles me<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">They can<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>both be you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">You could be inspired<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>and
consoled by the silence.<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-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="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="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">each small task becoming all the more significant</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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">each object suspended in timelessness</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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">And one beam of light upon my hand<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="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"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Little tasks can become significant, while doing the<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>tasks that a mother does. <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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Each little movement becomes a source<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>of light and inspiration.</span></u></b><b><u><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></u></b></p>

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