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Now we have the
minerals out of the way.

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The next poem is called
"December Cottonwoods."

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With all your leaves on the
ground, crisp and golden

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and you naked perpendicular
as if you just

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stepped out of them, I find
your poverty to my liking.

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They reach almost to my
knees, listen to me walking.

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Looking hard in your branches,
I see many old faces.

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But the ones with
hungry looks turn away.

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Nothing left to give them.

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I want to be within you trees
like a dancer or the wind

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making you move.

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That way I could help you
grow back your lost leaves.

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My sap would run out to
the end of your limbs

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yet always there would be
those to complain that I

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wore my bark like chainmail.

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But why give up your
leaves unless it

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is to spend a season waiting?

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Or could it be the
leaves wave of goodbye

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to show the rest of
us how to let go,

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atheists who believe only
in the letter of ourselves.

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