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Two poems from Word Music, by John Jansen in de Wal

If my Dad had been a rooster
and my Mom a willing hen,
They might have had a lot of chicks.
Maybe even ten.
 
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Sometimes I feel like 
a bramble bush in the desert.
 
Not only are my thorns,
my leaves, my branches
on fire, but my very roots.
 
It is a fire that
does not scorch
nor burn to ashes.
It causes me to shake
in body and in soul.
 
Is that your spirit?
 
• John Jansen in de Wal is a Toronto-based author, He has published several books. These poems are from one of his latest offerings Word Music. For more on the author, visit www.jansenindewal.com.
 
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