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This is from a selected
volume of poems

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called "No Nature" that
has the advantage--

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has the advantage of an
index, which is a good thing.

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I'm going to finish up
with one more little poem

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from this selection.

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Ripples on the surface.

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I was out in Sitka Sound
in Southeast Alaska

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with some Native American people
fishing for silver salmon.

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These were plenty of people.

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But you know, they're not
native American people exactly,

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they're working
people and fishermen

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and others is what they are.

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So actually talking about
Native Americans this

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isn't what they
want to talk about.

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They want to talk
about practical things.

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So we were watching
what was going

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on the surface of the water.

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And one of the women
said to me, so I

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start with a quote from her.

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Ripples on the
surface of the water

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are silver salmon
crossing under different

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from the ripples
caused by breezes.

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A skudding plume on a wave.

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A humpback whale is breaking
out in air gulping Herring.

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Nature wrote a book but a
performance a high old culture.

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Ever-fresh events scraped
out, rubbed out, and used.

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Used again, the braided
channels of the rivers

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hidden under fields of grass.

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The vast wild, the
little house alone.

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The little house in the wild.

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The wild in the
house both forgotten.

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No nature.

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Both together one
big empty house.

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