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OK.

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I've been writing
some poetry in Alaska.

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It's sort of difficult to
go away from some place

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where you lived all your life.

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Yeah, I mean you guys can
probably understand that.

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Anyway, I got up
to Alaska, and it's

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taken a while to get a
feeling for the area up there.

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It's all surrounded by ocean.

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I live on an island up there.

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And I get seasick real
easy, and I can't swim,

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and I stay away from the ocean.

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But the mountains up there, they
have very powerful, beautiful

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mountains.

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And, I guess, I
think of home when

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I can look at the mountains.

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So I've been doing
some mountain poems.

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And this is one of
the first ones I did.

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"Dark branches, dark
leaves, snow deep in sky

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that encloses the mountain.

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The sun is hidden in green
moss feathers that cling

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to the gray alder branches.

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On the mountain, within
the endless white sky,

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spruce trees entangle the
snow, and only the silence

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dances free.

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By the time I wrote
the spruce tree poem,

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the snow winds came, and
the mountain was gone."

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