<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span>What Saved Me</span></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b></b></div><div>Out of deep loneliness comes</div><div>a single ounce of sweetness</div><div>to see me through, like sap rising</div><div>in winter limbs, just this gift</div><div>lifted from an ordinary morning:</div><div>a few heart-shaped hoof-prints</div><div>of deer pressed into the now-</div><div>softening earth no one else</div><div><span>has set foot on in months.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- James Crews</span></div></div></body></html>