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So this second poem is--

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it actually came out of an
assignment I gave a class.

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I read them.

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Among others, Tony Hoagland's
poem, "Cry Me a River."

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And I sent them out to write
a poem out of a conversation.

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And I ended up doing
the exercise myself.

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So this was my effort.

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"On Bumps River."

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This is in Cape Cod.

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"We have come with
kayaks to the water,

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powder blue and marine blue
framed by dune, barrier

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island, the steely clouds.

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One of us says, I'm afraid.

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The second, take
risks, face fears.

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The third, holding his
child, place feet near center

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to stay balanced, upright.

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I go in circles, circles,
circles, the first says,

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though I wish to cut the
water like wings slice air.

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Wind rises, and
the child is cold.

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I'm cold, he says.

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I'm cold.

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An osprey hovers, dives, touches
the water and rises, flapping,

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lifting, the fish in his
talons, weighting him.

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The third says, the
laws of the Aerodynamics

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are illustrated by
the osprey, which

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flying as he descends,
plucks the fish

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and turns it with his talons to
face the direction in which he

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flies.

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We all look up again at
the osprey flying low

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over the dune, still visible.

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The second says, poor fish.

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The third, the osprey nests near
others because it hunts alone.

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The wind's rising.

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The child's cold.

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The first says, we will go back.

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The second, we
will go on a while.

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The fish is sailing out of
sight and does not think or move

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and will not close its eyes."

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