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I'm going to be reading quite a
few poems from a new manuscript

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entitled Journeys.

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So the last of the desert poems
is about a wonderful Wildlife

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Refuge outside of Albuquerque
called Bosque Del Apache.

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If the Earth's old bones
smile, I hear them.

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In the hush of this
greenless forest,

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shining up to the great
clump of salt cedar.

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To the black swords of Mesquita.

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To the grace of grasses.

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Yellow, rust.

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If the Earth's
old bones smile, I

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hear them shining to the
strange chirps and chatters.

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To the strange birds with
necks that flow, and flow.

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Canadian geese, sandhill
cranes, stirring the air.

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Stirring the air.

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If the Earth's
old bones smile, I

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hear them shining in the pools.

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In the mallards green shimmer.

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In the startled flap.

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Filling the blue
with the whirl white.

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Silent, vast.

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Then the tip of the black tip.

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Snow geese.

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Snow geese.

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If the Earth's old bones
smile, I hear them.

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Shining in the white
of the majestic crane.

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The great hoop.

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The white neck flowing, flowing,
into the desert grasses.

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The white flowing into
the smile of old bones.

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