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Faith

A dragonfly graphs evaporation
over the motionless, sunstruck river

and ripples of a fish having risen
that we did not see itself.

Steeples, weathervanes, lightning rods, antennae
strain after the invisible;

a cyclist stops on the bridge, to
stare, as if to say: ‘I believe

even though I can see’; the river
shrugging its shoulders, moving on.