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This next poem is
called The Move,

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and it has an epigraph
from Robert Penn Warren's

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novel All The King's
Men, which reads,

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you were alone with the
alone and it is his move.

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The old Buccaneers
are leaving now.

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They have had their fill.

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A blue halo has circled the
imitation gold and the real,

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and they are bewildered.

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All is shimmering.

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The sea is shimmering
like a marvelous belly

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viewed from the outside during
a blizzard in the mountains.

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For each other,
they are shimmering.

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They do not know what splendor
is balanced atop for sale now.

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What it is that is moving,
moving toward them, down.

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They rub their bodies.

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The skin is a fine lace
of salt and disease,

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and something is moving
just under the skin.

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And they know that
it is not blood.

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