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Hello, everyone.

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Thank you for coming
out this afternoon.

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Can you hear me?

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I'll begin with a
poem of invitation.

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Last fall at the
Montana festival

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of the book I was
scheduled as poets

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often are at these
events, to read early

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in the morning in
a basement room.

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I surveyed the turnout
kind of disappointed

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until at the very last
minute a high school teacher

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appeared with her entire
class to fill up the room.

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So this poems for them
reading poems to high school

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students in Missoula.

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You live next to the cold
chilly waters of surprise.

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Mountains and
rivers encircle you.

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The aspens multiply
at your feet.

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And the old Salish man
I sat next to at dinner

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his white hair resembling
first snow on the mountains

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spoke of youth.

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Trout flash at the
bottom of the river.

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Mutant glorious in the cool
and secret ledges of water.

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Like a fly tossed from the
end of a fishing line might

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I lure you with my words
into the boat of poetry.

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