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OK, I want to read a poem for
our other wolf, Happy Wolf.

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Happy is Arctic
Wolf and Malamute.

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And he weighs 115
pounds, and he's

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the gentlest-- yeah,
115 pounds, that big.

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He's the gentlest, sweetest
dog, but I live in Colorado

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and there's a lot of snow.

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And I wrote this poem after
walking out in the snow

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during a full moon.

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And it was very
ghostly and beautiful.

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Everything is so white
there when the snow falls.

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Everything turns white,
and I mean such white.

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And I was trying to capture
that white with this poem.

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"Walking in snow on a full
Moon Knight for Happy--

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that's his name-- white crunch
of sub-zero white moon spilling

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the bowl of ewe's
milk Celts drink

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to celebrate this ewe's moon
halfway between solstice

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and equinox.

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White wolf lopes ahead
between white tire tracks

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drifted and nearly lost.

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In profile, his head
twice the size of mine.

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White silence of the husband,
brooding over white piano keys,

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frozen between
cords of loneliness

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for the boy scoring his heart.

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White paper waiting
for words to skate

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from the mind's revolving rink.

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White smell of Crisco of white
lard bubbling around eggs

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of love, love, love with no red
roses strapped to their burning

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thighs.

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White stars blink, white
Saturn raises the moon

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white windless as frost
or the philosophy of ice

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rhyming the poet's cup.

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The senses are where ideas
die grateful as white moths

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into a winter sunset.

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White crunch of wolf paws
out leaping the deer trail.

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White wolf teeth
take my whole hand,

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and for now, do not bite down."

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