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Will We Be Awake?

Published: May 7, 2007
Categories: Photos, Poetry

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Sunrise to sunrise,
prayerful rhythm of the day.
Will we be awake?

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-Haiku by Antony Hanson at Coming to the Quiet / photo is mine taken on Saltspring Island

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