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You are illusive
cannot be mustered, wrestled
pinned down or coerced into staying
Your magic
springs up
from within at whim
bringing healing
spreading like seeds of a dandelion
helicoptering on a breeze
eventually to alight
settling comfortably in the soil
in time to emerge again in joyful yellow
Lauri Cruver Cherian is a poet and an author from the Pacific Northwest.