By "BlackBlanche" via Rennie Lorca
Submitted by RennieLorca
Date: 2004 Feb 12
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PARADISE

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11-20-82
From: St. Petersburg, Florida
For You: In Little Switzerland, N.C.

I gained the place by stealthy step
  and scarce disturbed a blade.
I crouched where Bobcat stole a drink
  and timid Redfox played

on mossy bank -- by rufous leaf,
  transfixed I sat awhile,
God's bounty to suffuse my soul
  and gypsy thoughts beguile.

Oh, rapturous hour, sufficient yet
  to bless a vagrant heart
Absent now from Paradise,
  but recalling every part.

(c) 2004 "BlackBlanche" via Rennie Lorca