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And now some poems from one
of my latest collections.

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Perhaps, two of the major
influences on this work

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would be, first of all,
the great amount of time,

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which I'm fortunately
able to spend

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in the out of doors hiking
and backpacking, and secondly,

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of course, the geography
and the cultural influences

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here in the Southwest.

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The first one is
"Granite Mountains,"

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which are as I remember over
beyond the Papago Indian

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Reservation, very
inaccessible area.

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All along the
gums, the teeth are

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aware with the ache
of thin ice melting.

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How the reefs rise
around us in the morning,

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follow us as we travel,
our heads transparent,

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and the boot soles work
to a nap on the rocks.

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And though we walk body
stretching into hours delirious

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into sand, move around
us with the ease

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of steady ships as wide
circling monstrous camels.

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Until the day goes down
and everything hardens,

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here we stand.

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At the end, our veins
bristling with cold.

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All day sworn to the brothers
of our changing shadows now

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dissolving, hearts burnt out.

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The thin last sheet of
sky, tar and albumin

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drips into their sockets.

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The feet still hold fire,
then go with the limbs

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and jaw to stone.

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