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The Poem on Your Table.

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Inside the poem, a girl
walks down the street.

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A man composes a letter.

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The first hush of
winter divides them.

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At the end of the poem,
a long white silence.

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And at the beginning, the same.

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All around the poem,
the real world gathers,

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where, just now, snow descends,
making so soft a sound

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you hear your heart
keeping track of the time.

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Again, you hold the
poem in your hand.

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Again, inside it, everything
that has already happened

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begins.

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The terrible white
page stretches in front

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of the man sitting at the desk.

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The girl gathers her things
together, opens a door,

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and walks into the dark, where
the first snow of the year

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falls around her and makes of
silence a voice she can almost

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hear.

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She does not know
where she is going

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or what she may have
left behind or lost.

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As she listens to her
footsteps, marking the time,

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she does not remember how she
found herself inside this poem.

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