Burton L. Carlson
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Burton L. Carlson
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God

I see you in others’ faces, kind and severe.
In the faces of idiots and miscreants, I see you there.

No artificial dividers, it is your eyes
I see every day in the mirror.

You remain alive
in the uncounted faces of others.

FaithSuzi PeelDecember 13, 2015
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