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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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It's Not Time

...yet.

It’s cold,
too damn cold.
Only a few days ago
I was burnin’ up
in the late season sun.

Warm in my office,
I feel open to suggestion
as I try finding cracks
in the absolute certainty
wanting to claim me,
both body and soul,
for the machine world.

So I ask the maple trees
right outside my window,
Why do you hold tightly
to your leaves?

The wind swells,
gathering in their branches.
Then I hear them reply,
Soon, but now’s not time
to let them all go.

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