<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Leave Me Hidden</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td3"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">I was having trouble deciding </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">which to watch: <em class="">Night</em> </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><em class="">of the Living Bloggers</em>, or </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><em class="">Attack of the Neck-Brace People.</em> </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">In the end I just went for a walk. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">In the woods I stopped wondering why </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">of all trees </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">this one: my hand </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">pressed to fissures </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">and ridges of </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">bark’s hugely magnified </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">fingerprint, forehead </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">resting against it </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">finally, feeling </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">distinctly </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">a heartbeat, vast, silently </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">booming there deep in </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">my hidden leaves, blessed </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">motherworld, personal </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">underworld, thank you </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">thank you.</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Franz Wright</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>