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# Alone
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/alone-16562334/
- Published: 2022-06-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Always together, flying back and forth. This year, though, he is traveling alone. The lake is empty, she did not fly north. Despondent, he will find a lonely stone, and stand there, let the lake absorb his pain. A bon...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Always together, flying back and forth.  
This year, though, he is traveling alone.  
The lake is empty, she did not fly north.  
Despondent, he will find a lonely stone,  
and stand there, let the lake absorb his pain.  
A bonsai tree now. Once, he was a crane.

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