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And I go on to another
little group of poems

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I want to identify.

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I received a request
for certain poems,

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and I'd like to do
something about that.

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I received a letter
from a person

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I know by correspondence,
Michael Hogan, and he said,

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there were certain poems
he wished I'd read.

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I'd like to respond to that.

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Smuggled into the
program at various places

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are several of the
poems he mentioned.

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This just happened,
but I have one

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here that he took the
trouble to send a copy of,

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which I wasn't carrying with me.

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It hasn't been in any book.

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It was published in The
Hampton-Sydney Poetry Review.

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It's called
"Accepting Surprise."

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"The right mistakes, that rich
moment when the rain finds you,

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a pinch from a
branch in the hedge

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that tells you you're
real, the wrong turn

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that spills whole sunsets
reflected and still

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on a lake at a dead
end barring your road,

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there are these doubled ways,
returns beyond even dreams.

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Mothers, fathers, your lives
flash in the pain and out,

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but maverick rainbows
blind us all.

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I bring you and your children
a whole treasure, mistakes

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like jewels, the hidden rush
and loss of a world that

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throbs beyond control.

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Good, good, never quite ours."

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