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"The Far Norway Maples."

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"Silver poplars rise and
thin to the very twig,

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but what thins at
your fingertips?

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The aspirations of a
minute, a day, a year?

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Yellow tangs veer in the
water and, catching sunlight,

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veer again,
disappear from sight.

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The unfolding of a life has
junctures that rupture plot--

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a child folds paper
and glues toothpicks,

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designs a split-level house with
white walls and pitched roof,

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but his father snatches
the maquette and burns it.

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If you inhale and spore this
moment, it tumors your body,

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but if you exhale it, you
dissolve midnight and noon--

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sunlight tilts and leafs the
tips of the far Norway maples."

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