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'Trust' sets stillness on the Moon against reported footprints across water.

Its power comes from incompleteness. The page presents trust as belief in traces that should not exist, while the terse lineation makes each phrase feel provisional.

''''Across the Street the Other Way' -- the speaker watches sorrow and glory pass without claim, trying to make an epigram out of ordinary street life. 'Our sin / Watching the other go by' closes with shared complicity rather than judgement.'''