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If a stone should fall out from the bottom;fall out from the middle

of the bottom of a wall

along the boundary of a field;

would that change things?

Would time

fall through the stones

into the dirt

and somehow

wash away important things

that we had only just

remembered from our past.

Things we swore

as children

we would never regress upon—

never undo our

severity of emotion

and belief for.

Or, would it just be

a break in the bottom

of a stone wall

that runs along a field

at the base

of a red shale mountain

just outside Uhlerstown,

Pennsylvania.

At the end of spring,

I believe.