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The title poem
from this new book

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is also, of course,
its Chihuahua

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and it's a very short poem.

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It has a little bit to do with
the weather patterns here.

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They tell us that in winter
our weather comes from the Los

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Angeles area, and in summer it
comes from the Southeast out

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of Chihuahua out of West Texas.

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Call it Chihuahua.

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Not as one of my students
called it chihuahua.

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[LAUGHTER]

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The storm has come out of
Chihuahua looking for cowboys.

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Following their spit,
they leap from porches,

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stand out in front yards
watching it lift the lips

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of Arroyo's.

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Discovering rabbits
hiding in bushes.

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The bellies of
telephone poles whiz

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over their heads going North.

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High as straddle liners.

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But it is already
traveled too far,

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and stops like this
across the sky.

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A sacred garment eaten by moths.

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