Terrarium
  
by Matt Ransom

 I think of a photograph, now gone
  of the world through a window
  
the houses, the backyards

and the oldest tree in the world
  at the end of a summer day
  And in the glass top of a terrarium
  this world was collected and held
  as if in a jewel
  
as it is
  
in my mind's eye

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