A Landscape

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This painting of a barn and barnyard near sundownMay be enough to suggest we don't have to turnFrom the visible world to the invisibleIn order to grasp the truth of things.We don't always have to distrust appearances.Not if we're patient. Not if we're willingTo wait for the sun to reach the angleWhen whatever it touches, however retiring,Feels invited to step forwardInto a moment that might seem to usFamiliar if we gave ourselves more oftenTo the task of witnessing. Now to witnessA barn and barnyard on a day of restWhen the usual veil of dust and smokeIs lifted a moment and things appearTo resemble closely what in fact they are.

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