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if you lose the stone what will happen

with two lines by Stanley Moss

by Lydia Harris

I ask the stone the question I must answer myself

a human voice doesn’t last very long

I will miss the stone’s many languages

I will lose the way stone thinks about me

the way it vaunts not itself, the way it bears all things

the stone has become the place to which I tend

I must leave it as I found it


Stone poems by Lydia Harris
A Fishy TailStory by Selina Hardisty
How to pray the stone beadsPoem by Lydia Harris
if you lose the stone what will happenPoem by Lydia Harris
Sentinel StonePoem by Lydia Harris
Standing StonePoem by Lydia Harris
Stone's first day at schoolPoem by Lydia Harris
The Quoybirse stone blunders into the housePoem by Lydia Harris

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