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It's good to be young.

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You can say all manners
of kinds of things

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before you know what
people will say about you

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you're saying them.

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This is called, "Landscape
with Leaves and Figure."

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"Passionate love is temporary
insanity the Chinese say.

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That day I walked nine miles
in the bowl the hill makes,

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coming round and round
avoiding the road in sane

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I realized a few weeks later, at
the time I sank my crepe soles

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in the spread of leaves, grass,
needles, bedding, down the path

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I took describing every tree,
bush, fern, each stone, leaf,

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stick, isolate detail
in the mind, one woman.

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It was icy cold.

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My nose froze.

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In the air, lichen were dancing
up hundred-footed trees,

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the ivy dirndling up.

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Like glitter, flint, I
stood there planted firmly

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and I could not feel the cold,
wind, rain, the ivy glinting

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savagely like mirrors
on the skirts,

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the six-armed goddess
dancing a storm, wet,

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it was wet inside the forest,
though no rain was falling.

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It was sliding down.

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And you, meanwhile, clear
across country from the snow

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packs of Vermont, two weeks, one
half, a honeydew, papaya, moon

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were eating while I rimmed
the bowl the woods make,

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the penetrating silence
between rains and Oregon,

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insane, I realized
a few days later

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and I said since you had not
yet left because I love you.

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Yes, you said.

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I know that day."

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