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OK.

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Sometimes I have trouble
turning these pages.

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So bear with me.

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The next poem is
called, A Voice.

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It is late, and no moon's out.

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I'm alone here in
this metal chair--

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listening.

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My car-- a few yards
away with the lights off.

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Stars, the river.

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The trees face me on the
far back with a darkness

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older than myself.

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Here, this ground I
pretended was home.

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Like an arm I don't use,
never noticing how it waits.

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The sky looks big enough
for a man to walk through--

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discover himself, the
holes his body makes.

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Cottonwoods I can almost
touch lean out at me.

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Fear-- my legs rooted in it.

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The self-- I won't
let go of ever.

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An alpha owl, his voice calling
out like a rare old coin

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left years ago in an attic.

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A large one cent
piece, green and moldy

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in its dark wooden box.

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Uncomplaining, like the blind
woman who gave it to me.

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She said, I was going
to be famous someday.

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I can hear him--

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the alpha owl-- his voice
nearer now, calling and calling.

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