<p>Cities kill religion, or at<br />
least spirituality. I think it’s<br />
the dirty waste smoke—not<br />
the clean smoke of burning maple.</p>
<p>It gathers on the life of the<br />
air,<br />
turns it brownish gray and<br />
makes it heavy enough to sink<br />
and accumulate like a glaze<br />
on the street.</p>
<p>Even one so atheistic as<br />
I can have a hard time<br />
in the morning, walking<br />
outside in the early light<br />
and seeing an apple<br />
fall<br />
from the tree, thinking<br />
about how it grew,<br />
what it took and why<br />
just before ducking<br />
in the wood shed for<br />
kindling.</p>
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