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One more poem from
this collection.

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I don't know that
anyone has ever

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liked this poem with
the exception of myself,

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and I read it largely
to please myself.

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A very simple poem, I think
it's called Toward Daybreak.

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The wind leaves

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The wind comes back

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Speaking the parables of salt

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Where we looked
was not far enough

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Like a man who turns
away from the book

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he held all night knowing
he is understood nothing,

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but a sleep now

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Morning will walk down from
the hills lifting her arms

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like a girl washing her breasts

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I danced for about an hour
after I wrote the book there.

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I didn't tell you
quite the truth.

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One day I did get a very
odd letter that obviously

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been traveling in
the mails for a year,

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and on that crumpled
note someone had written,

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I like your poem, Toward
Daybreak the only one.

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