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And a pound which is an earlier
pound but in a way a companion

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piece to water.

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And perhaps singularly
inappropriate for Tucson poem

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called Ice.

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It's in four sections, again
I won't read the numbers.

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Ice.

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The wind falls back
across the snow.

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Silence leans in
the doorway just

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as pale as you had imagined.

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Why invite him further?

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That song is a simple one,
easy to learn, hard to forget.

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you know how it
goes, you remember.

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At night the cold sinks
its teeth in your cheek,

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in the morning the cold leaves
its ghost in your breath.

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You discover what
continues to live

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inside the splinters
of things hiding,

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pretending to be a secret.

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Inside the stones
full of tiny flames,

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inside the smoke floating
above the trees, inside the ice

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that looks back into
nothing but itself.

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Each day, the snow falls
repeating and repeating

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its one line.

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You ask for news and
you get another list.

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And the end of winter
arrives with the names

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of the missing and
the same question, who

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do you know this time?

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At the edge of light, the
wolves take up their howling.

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They have always been
there inside their hunger.

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I give you what I can,
a coat and a compass,

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matches in a tin box.

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I give you this shelter.

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Step into it and silence
touches you everywhere.

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When you speak, your
words drop to the floor.

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When you break them open,
there are more words inside.

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Mirror, knife, ice, fire, smoke,
stone, you know how it goes.

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You remember the song of wind
in the branch, the message

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of light across the snow, a
sign of your breath frozen

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into stars on the clear glass.

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