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Now, my last poem before
I call upon Peter Redgrave

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to help me out is
called "Logan Stone."

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It's the title poem
of my new book.

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I come from Cornwall
as Lois Shelton says.

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This is a Celtic
land rich in mystery

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at the very west of England.

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Among its many mysteries are
certain rocks, huge granite

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boulders called Logan's stones.

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They are balanced very
delicately on a rock beneath.

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So delicately that a
finger can log the rock

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or move it, make it tremble.

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But nothing can ever quite
destroy it, push it over.

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And the thought occurred
to me that perhaps

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human relationships
are like this too.

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That if there is
a tremble in them,

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if there is an imperfection
they can endure longer.

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You are ready to
take the strain.

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Whereas if they have a
seeming perfection then

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they are in great danger.

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So really I suppose
it's a love poem.

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"Logan Stone."

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If it were one stone it
would not be magical.

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If it were two stones
the attrition of rain

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cutting into its natural
weakness too well,

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it would not be magical.

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If it's massif could
be set trembling

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neither two nor one
for a moment only,

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say the logging
point of nightfall,

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it would be magical
yet not miraculous.

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Small worlds may be
born of such magic,

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but that it can go on
and on without ceasing,

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dazzling the spectator
with immobile motion

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neither two nor one
neither one or two.

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Doomed and unshakeable
on its point of infinity

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that is the miracle.

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To be so weak a finger logs it.

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What constant
strength, what force

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it takes to be a Logan stone.

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You and I what cold applied
granite fire logging

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on weakness.

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No storm can move us.

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