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Well, here's a little poem
which I read last night

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to some students.

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One didn't-- had a hard
time understanding it,

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which really bewildered me
because I thought the poem was

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so lucid.

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It doesn't have a title, it
has to do with last summer.

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My oldest daughter about
12 or 13 years old,

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came to live with
us for a month.

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And it was wonderful
having all my children

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in the same house at one time.

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And with some delicious
summer nights.

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And this is part of that one.

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Stars overhead, a frog's
grunt from the other side

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of the pond.

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Clear sound in the summer night.

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Ollie is asleep.

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My warm, foxy girls
curled up at my sides.

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In my lap, the story of a king
and his youngest daughter.

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The perfume of hair.

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Little Omi is breathing
the pure breath of sleep.

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Eve moves to the open door.

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My senses are full of
her slim young womanly

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body and tinkling anklets.

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I am ready for sleep.

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Orion blows like a
kite in the summer sky.

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I think I will climb
up his tail to freedom.