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Then at the end of the
poem, end of the book,

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there's the final
poem I'll read.

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It's called "The Stones."

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"Now it is gone.

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All of it?

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No, it is there.

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A rock island, 12 miles
offshore in the Atlantic.

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Straight cliffs, salt grass
on top, rabbits, snipe.

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At lowest tide a scrap of sand.

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Maybe once a year,
the sea is so calm

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that an island man
beaches his coracle,

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wedges the anchor in stone,
and rock climbs to the top.

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He traps small game,
listening to the wind, fearful

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of Skull Island.

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Monks in the middle ages
lived in a stone house

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here, whole lives."

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