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CEDAR HEART the way the ax splits open the sudden red heart of cedar the way it smolders on the coals and clouds you in smoke rising in prayer the way we burn and seek the wood of our yearning and its body heat the way the muscle swollen and purple bends and crackles into yellow flame the way the wind strikes with the grain and splinters the air the way the sky accepts our rising and juniper becomes the scent of blue © 2002 by Richard W. Todd |