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This next poem is
called "Dawn Redwood",

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and the last line of the poem
is from a poem by CD Wright.

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And that poem of hers was
called "Floating Trees."

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And this was the last
time I saw a CD Wright

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in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Early morning light, a
young red-tailed hawk

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glided onto an overhead
branch and peered down at me.

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But it did not look
with your eyes.

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A battered and rusted
pickup up lies in the wash.

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Navajo tea buds on the trail.

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I headed back and checked
in the boiler room

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the traps baited
with peanut butter.

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Now a gnat flits
against this lit screen.

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Where are you now?

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One morning we walked in
a Rhode Island cemetery

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and did not look at
a single gravestone.

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We looked at 100-year-old
copper beaches,

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cells burnished purple,
soaking up sunshine,

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and talked about
the dawn redwood.

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How the glimmering light at
the beginning of the world

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was in all things.

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This morning, in the
pre-dawn darkness,

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Orion angled in the
eastern sky with Sirius

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low above the ridgeline.

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And before daylight
blotted out the stars,

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I heard you speak, the scratched
words return to their sleeves.

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