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The next poem is called "Autumn
Shower on the Santa Catalinas."

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I shouldn't really talk
about the form of this,

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but most of you who
live in the desert

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have seen the way rain
looks from a distance,

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like a sort of vertical
column of blackness,

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or black cloud falling.

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"Autumn Shower in
the Santa Catalinas."

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"A man in black is
talking to the mountain.

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Rain taking it all down,
short hand on my windshield.

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The mountain folds her bat
wings and says nothing.

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Tears with their intolerable
visions, distorting the world.

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They run their soft
feet down my face.

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Silence opens the blue ear
and the branches of winter.

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The peacock trembles,
then heaven."