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I'm on the--

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I'm on the academic
50-minute-hour.

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I'd like to read a
couple more poems.

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And before finishing
off those poems,

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I want to thank people
for the hospitality here.

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It's a very unusual kind of
stopping place in many ways.

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Good place to see.

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I've enjoyed the chance
to come from my far part

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of the country.

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One her slate at school,
my mother wrote, winter.

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When she ran home,
the weather erased it.

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For all the pain my mother saw
in the world, over her face,

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the snow has exploded
it's little flowers.

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This is the part of the
year, she called to us,

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excluded from tree
rings, children remember.

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Around our house where
such tall legends,

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everything carved
by winds and rivers.

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Even today, they care,
the temporary winds,

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the prevailing rivers.

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And a giant in the skies
still knocks at our chimney.

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For a while, children,
the trees around us

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have those years in them.