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>> I have to tell you what
the next poem was written

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for because I have to get in these two words.

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It was written about a Sierra Club poster.

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If any of you know my husband at all --

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-- I have a beautiful Sierra Club
poster in my room and from time

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to time I have my students write on pictures
when they just can't get ideas for poems.

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So one time I tried it with
that poster that's in my room.

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Some of you may be familiar with it.

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So it's just a tree set against ferns.

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Autumn Tree.

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So like a line, a black rope
twining toward light beside ferns.

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Coined leaves meshing into wool, perching
on wire branches like fine chartreuse gold.

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Aristocrat, I want to be an earring, piercing
your lawn ear, the only gold that doesn't yield.

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All that cold, surely by spring
when the circle of ice falls

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and melts, the thin round words will start.