Guam's Caution - Carolyn Guinzio

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This is what happens
from letting them go:
First, a clotting, 
ungodly, of the understory.
A severing of air and color.
What falls dead, shrub or bird,
will turn into the grey 
abundance.  Spiders
in chandelier lattices cross,
filling the gaps between trees.
There will be no stopping
what passes being stopped.
We are alone and need
every part of ourselves.
We are meant to see
into the water,
into the sky between leaves.
These were two of our many
blue things.  Spiders
fatten, listening
with their feet.