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Before the light took form was the darkness and before the light was chaos and drowned hope
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He was a dragoon with my second husband when we came down to Texas in 1845.
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Begin at Omega and open at the right
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So I shall wear my boonie hat today. It's ripped and faded and
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As she stokes the flames to fight the chill that will descend the stairs
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Rain has taken down some of the festive foliage as the trees here in Columbus
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Forgive me father, for I have sinned. It's been two week's since my last Confession.
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Beneath the moonless sky,
beneath the stars that burn
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Yesterday the festive leaves swirled round
and left, for just one instant, a tatterdemalion
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You touch the mountaintops
and make them smoke;
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British soldier, standing tall, I’ve seen your kind before, you know –
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I am a word of skill beneath the wisdom of water,
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After Frankie died you took us into Bastrop
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Say goodbye to me beside some shady pond
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I have seen their lean faces out beside the Interstate. I have seen them standing, backpacks and bed rolls,
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Lord give me guidance,
yes point me the way
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I was the one who stood in the door who carried the weight,
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I wait for you beneath a poet's moon
on the edge of town behind the Burger King
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Pinioned upon the rack of time
you smell of Andalusia
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He could stand upon one finger.
He could tap dance with his hands.
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Into the circle beyond the hills and sky,
beyond where even stars and comets
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Phoenix in January 1969 was surprising rainy
and the streets near the center of town
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Don, yes I remember it: the night we hunkered in our holes
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In the billows of three in the morning
I feel you shift then settle next to me.
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I don't imagine the peacocks
walking in the park this
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She gathers heather
as the petrels flee
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I think of you when spring lurches into summer
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It is some Felicity that I see you here
and even though you are a Republican
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Handwoven in Persia
for prayer,
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These are the songs I sang for you
in four-part harmony
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The white-haired man in his clean, gray coat.
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God bless Dr. Malik,
my dentist.
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