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Now, I'm going to
read two more poems.

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This next poem is called
"Across Lamarck Col."

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Where's Lamarck?

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"Across Lamarck Col."

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A col, as some of
you may not know,

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is a notch in a
mountain ridge which

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can be crossed but just barely.

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And in a way, I owe this poem--

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I owe the inner
workings of this poem

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to the porch of
Robert Creeley, which

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I hope he won't object to.

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It's a love poem.

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"Descending hillsides
in half morning light,

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step over small down pine, I see
myself as stony granite face.

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All that we did was human,
stupid, easily forgiven, not

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quite right.

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A giving stream you
give another should

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have been mine had I been
not me, to whom not given,

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who most needed, waited,
stopt off, my me, my fault,

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your black block
mine, our, ours.

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Myself a stony granite face.

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You giving him because an other.

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I also now become another.

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What I had not from you,
for you, with a new lover,

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give and give and
give and take."

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