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I want to end with
four more poems.

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I want to read them in pairs.

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First there are two quite short
ones, and then all of these

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are quite recent from this year.

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I think that fairly
simple in that way.

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And these next two
and their connection

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with the ones I've been reading
I think explains itself.

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The second one is far more
discursive than the first which

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is a creation myth, a tiny
one, it's called "Beginning."

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Long before spring,
king of the black cranes

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rises one day from
the black needle's eye

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on the white plain
under the white sky.

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The crown turns and the eye
drilled clear through his head

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turns.

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It is north everywhere.

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Come out, he says.

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Come out then, the light
is not yet divided.

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It is a long way to
the first anything.

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Come even so, we will start.

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Bring your nights with you.

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