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Reflective practice

reflective practice

like the sun

mirrored in empty shopfronts

virtual hangouts

cold coffee in abandoned bars

time to think

and think and think

stuck in a groove

of the way it once was.

And yet

even noticing your stuckness

flushes a quarantined world

green as hope.

tRuth 2021

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