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My wife teaches at the
University of Montana.

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And so I was a
little late tonight

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because we were watching Montana
play UCLA on the television set

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and they were doing
all right for a while.

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This first poem is called
Going to Remake this World.

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Morning and the snow
might fall forever.

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I keep busy.

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I watch the yellow dogs
chase creeping cars

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filled with Indians on their
way to the tribal office.

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Grateful trees tickle the busy
underside of our snow fat sky.

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My mind is right I think and
you will come today for sure,

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this day when the snow falls.

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From my window I see bundled
Doris horsemen, black

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in the blowing snow.

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Her raving son Horace
too busy counting flakes

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to hide his face.

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He doesn't know.

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He kicks my dog and
glares at me too dumb

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to thank the men who keep him
on relief and his mama drunk.

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My radio reminds me that Hawaii
calls every afternoon at 2:00.

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Moose jaw is overcast
12 below and blowing.

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Some people listen,
if you do not

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come this day,
today of all days,

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there is another time
when breeze is tropic

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and rift's the green sap forever
up these crooked cottonwoods.

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Sometimes the snow
never falls forever.

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