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I will read a new poem of
mine translated by Robert Bly.

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"Further In."

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It's the main highway leading
in, the sun soon down.

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Traffic backs up, creeps along.

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It is a torpid
glittering dragon.

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I'm a scale on that dragon.

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The red sun, all at once,
blazes through my windshield,

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pouring in.

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I turn transparent.

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Some writing shows up inside me.

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Words done with invisible
ink, showing when

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the paper is held over a fire.

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I know I have to go far off,
straight through the city,

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out the other side.

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I have to step out and walk
a long time in the woods.

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Go in the tracks of the badger.

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Hard to see, nearly dark.

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Stones lie about on the moss.

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One of the stones is precious.

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That one can change it all.

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It can make the darkness shine.

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It is the light switch
for the whole country.

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Everything depends
on that stone.

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Look at it.

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touch it.

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