Contributor: Perry Gardbakken

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A basket of blessings
he offered me
in his passing
from life to life.

A basket of blessings
I turned into bridges
to carry my soles
from one life to the next.

A basket of blessings
I left for my son
when he walked into manhood
when he walked from life to life.


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Perry saw twenty winters before he left the mountains. He writes in nature, sometimes while sitting in trees.