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Let me change perhaps
just the mood a bit.

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This is a poem I
wrote in Mexico.

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I had a five-year-old
boy with me.

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And I suppose the
natural thing that comes

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is that sense of anxiety
or a sense of worry.

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You don't quite know where
the five-year-old is running.

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You don't quite know
what he's getting into.

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And he would disappear for
hours and come back later.

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And I got accustomed
to it after a while

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and thought it was all right.

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And there was a way
in which he was really

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in touch with a landscape
and with the people in ways

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that I was not in touch.

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He discovered that
in his own way.

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And I realized
that, for example,

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at night when he
undressed, there

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was really a kind of road map of
everywhere he'd been that day.

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And my process of
bathing him was really

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discovery of what
his life had been

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that day where he'd been it's
called back from the fields.

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Until nightfall my son ran
in the fields looking for God

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knows what, flowers perhaps,
odd birds on the wing,

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something to fill an empty
spot, maybe a luminous angel

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or a country girl
with a secret dark.

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He came back empty
handed or so I thought.

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No, I find them, thistles,
goat heads, the barbed weeds,

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all those with hooks or
horns, the snuggle tooth,

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the grinning ones, those
wearing lantern jars, old ones

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and beards, lepers
and silk lagoons,

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the multiple pocked moons
and spiny satellites,

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all those with juices and saps
like the fingers of thieves,

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nation after nation of grasses
that dig in, that burrow,

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that hug winds and grab hand
holds in whatever lean place.

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It's been a good day.

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