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I'd like to read a couple of
poems from Palm Reading again

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and then share with
you a few new poems

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since the book was published.

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This is the title poem from
Palm Reading in Winter called

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"Palm Reading in Winter."

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It's a little trick I have.

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"Palm Reading in Winter."

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Something simple.

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Something clear.

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Anticipation of cold weather.

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Skaters circling on a pond.

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The snow is void of distance.

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What seems far away
is all too close.

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A man comes home to his
family tired of his work.

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If there's a fire in the
fireplace, so much the better.

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A hot drink with its
theme for his lips.

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So what if it's not enough?

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Think of the
absence of. thought.

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Snow drifts over footprints.

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A candle lit in sunlight.

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What's difficult, retrace.

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The ice ballet,
the figure eight,

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hands over the fire, the smell
of cinders on our clothes.

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The lines in the hand
are complex but change,

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smooth themselves out.

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And if in our palms we see
change that seems unjust,

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the hand of someone else
in ours may mask that fear,

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distract us for a time at least.

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What is not enough.

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What we have and what we
want, the need to know,

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the ache that complicates.

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