<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">In Passing</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">How swiftly the strained honey</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">of afternoon light</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">flows into darkness</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and the closed bud shrugs off</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">its special mystery</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">in order to break into blossom:</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">as if what exists, exists</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">so that it can be lost</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and become precious</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Lisel Mueller</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020)</span></div></body></html>