Splitting Thoughts
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Here the dark dead cells of the tree are the strongest
It is no coincidence it is called heartwood
Tough while the softness around it is peeled apart
Many times the heartwood does not last the longest
Silently rotting leaving a void where strength once stood
Invisibly weakened by life, so goes the heart
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(An Italian Sestet)
The wood that warms you twice
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Swing and swing again
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This log seems to like its shape
Holding onto it tightly
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Would rather be a home for insects
Or a slow rotting place for plants to grow
Anything but firewood
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Winter Exercise
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My morning reps may be different than yours:
Lift light weight, walk twenty steps, go down stairs,
Walk twenty more steps, squat, lift three pounds.
Repeat until light weight becomes heavy.
Lift heavy weight, walk forty steps, squat down,
Place many three pound weights in bin. These are
My morning reps.
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Repeat each early morning through winter.
For extra cardio sweep bits from floor.
The saying goes firewood warms you twice
And I can attest to this while doing
My morning reps.
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(A Rondine Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 