today in the midst of my ordinary life
something as uneventful as a paper cup of coffee and two friends
outside, beneath a tree
the wind pushed a dead branch from its home 30 feet above me
and i was struck, suddenly, without warning
life does that sometimes
first it seems like nothing, a surprise but
easy enough to fold into the day
the fallout sneaks in over days,
little lingering liabilities,
not marked as part of the impact.
the challenge is to sort these out,
attend to them,
and maintain the world we know as our own
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