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This poem has seven parts.

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And they might be
thought of this moment

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in the course of a
night spent alone

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in a ruined house in the country
in winter, moments from dusk

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to dawn.

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The poem is called "Another
Night in the Ruins".

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In the evening haze
darkening on the hill,

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purple of the eternal.

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A lackbird crosses
over, flock, flock,

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adoring only the innocent.

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Nine years ago, in a plane
that rumbled all night

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above the Atlantic,
I could see lit up

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by lightning bolt
jumping out of it.

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A thunder had formed like
the face of my brother,

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looking nostalgically down
on blue lightning clash

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the moment that the Atlantic.

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He used to tell me,
what good is the day.

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And come hill of despair,
the bonfire you candle

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can light the great sky.

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Though, it's true, of
course, to make it burn,

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you have to throw yourself in.

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Wind pours itself hollow
in the East of my ruined.

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Ghost float as snow drifts that
build out there in the dark.

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Upside down ravines into
which night trees are

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torn wings are buried feathers.

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I listen, I hear nothing.

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Only the cow, the
cow of nothingness,

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moving down the bone.

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Is that a whisper?

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If grass is in the
snow for a grain,

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find this whip
straight into flames,

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plus crows flame bursting
out of the ground.

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How many nights must it take?

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One take me to learn that
we aren't after all made

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from that bird which
flies out of exactly.

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But for a man as it goes
up in flames is one worse

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is to open himself
to be the flame.

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[APPLAUSE]

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