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I'll read a poem that this
rather long, complicated

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sounding title comes from,
A Probable Volume of Dreams.

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It's called "Treetops."

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My father moved to the
South hunting duck.

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It is warm, he has appeared
like a ship surfacing

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where he floats face up
through the duck lands.

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Over the tops of
trees duck will come

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and he strains not to miss
seeing the first of each flock.

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Although it will be
impossible to shoot one

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from such an angle, face up
like that in a floating coffin

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with a lid obstructs
half a whole view,

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if he has a gun Afterlives
are full of such hardships.

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One meets for example in
one's senselessness high water

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and our faithless so the dead
wonder if they're imagined,

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but they are not quite.

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How could they know we
know when the Earth shifts

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deceptively to set forth
ancestors to such pursuits?

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My father will be
asking, is this fitting?

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And I think so, I who with the
others coming on the afterlife

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after the fact, in a dream,
in a probable volume,

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in a probable volume
of dreams think so.

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