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My spiritual life is a bucket of beer-bottle caps
a decade of scoring baseball games
years of laminated autumn leaves 
bookcases of books
poems printed in spiral vanities
and this sequence of daily poems in chronology.
Each of these piles
significant at the time of attention
has the same sum and substance 
the heapings differ by the poems 
only if self-regard elucidates more 
than Coors or autumn finery.