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Think of it as mowing the grass again
revolving around the house at the center of an emerald lawn
a clapboard house forest green
a boulder like ours off the driveway at Old Coach Lane
around the property a ring of fifty-foot pines 
edging the grass
filtering the light
October contrast dark and bright
the afternoon green blue 
kids playing inside too young to push or rake 
a wife like Dawn reading a book or in the kitchen young
years to come whirling around the trees
like every year at Halloween.