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You don't expect a lawn
                                            do you?
To have each blade different and polished
Just for them all to crowd in
As something, say, to walk on
Or play
Like the surfaces of words
That hold us up
Above the dark places

Impersonal and beautiful, regular
Predictable, reflective and lucid
No more help
Than blades of grass

Is it the muddy grass
Or the muddy sky
That muddy pavement
Faint traces washed out
The words of children's games

Dark cloud shapes
Then the sheen of moisture
Lights reflected
Need the darkness
Like grass needs mud beneath

Meaning like meaning
Can't go away
Even from the grass

Can't keep it out
Stretches to the horizon
On either side, like