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"Three Stanzas about a Tree."

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The tree too wants to bend
over and wait a million years

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for an agate bridge
itself may have become,

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as we turn and turn
into with final grace

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that seamless
singleness we could not

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embody across the river
in our own bodies.

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The tree has bent over
which carried us here.

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Striations like glyphs
from who could imagine,

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and there were
plenty too who came

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for the sun, who now are burnt
into the Earth in a black seal

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familiar to but one or two.

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Have we a vault for fury, a
cathedral like the redwood?

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Have we wanted to be glass or
a diamond of the first water?

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That oak has the same
date with carbon we have.

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Have I, think, wanted to
be the tree or one, two,

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or three stanzas about a tree?

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