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This poem it's called "Snow."

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And I guess it's about as
close as I've ever come

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to writing an aesthetic credo.

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It wasn't standing on the
socket it would have stayed on.

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It's the only poem
that I ever did

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write that has anything vaguely
like a Latin term in it,

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and not because I
don't know them,

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but I don't particularly enjoy
them, especially in poetry.

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In writing poems,
for some reason,

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that is not a
language that I happen

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to be able to feel
good about using.

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This would sneak some in though.

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It's called "Snow".

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"Snow involves
irrelevance, assumes

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forms a priori a stone,
tree, mountainside, orders

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the chaos visible on slopes
or fields and falling,

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softens all in light, softens
all the hard, dark, necessary

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ledge of rock, wound to the peak
and twigs that clenched down

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that branch down
through clenched Earth,

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conceals and shines around the
informed edge, the hazard."

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I was thinking in
particular in that

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poem about skiing and about
the way snow covers things.

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So sometimes, you can't see
branches and so on hanging down

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or see that that's
quite what they are.

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And a friend pointed out to me
perfectly correctly, I think,

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that it depends on what you
intend to use the snow for

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or whether it's concealing
hazards for instance

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and all that kind of thing.

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And also insisted in the fact
the snow doesn't order chaos

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at all but creates a new chaos.

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And at which point,
I found myself

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agreeing with him
perfectly well.

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And with this unfeasible
poem on my hands,

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which I still liked anyway.

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