<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This Is Not To Say</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A garden shows the care of hands, but this is not to say those hands have made it grow.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That birds will sing among the trees is not to say that trees will harbor song, and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Too, though drought withers the vine, this is not to say the Sun brings death to life.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That a person like a flower in love may bloom is not to say that love is like a flower, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> When by candlelight two lovers burn, that’s not to say the candle is the fire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Thoughts may dart and school like minnows, knowing nothing of the sea,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though this is not to say that water, mute infinity of<a></a> liquid sparks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Could not rise into a cloud to rain upon a garden, or shade the gardener’s eye.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is not to say that thoughts are love or candlelight or song,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is not to say a garden, or the gardener, is a cloud.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Lewis Caraganis</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from Amsterdam.</span></div></body></html>