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Thank you.

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"Inside the trees, where
tomorrow hides along

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with years, tomorrow stirs, and
there my sisters, never born,

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touch lips to bark
and begin to sing.

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Brother of air, brother of
sun, please tell our story

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that we may live
in the brief wind.

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Wherever I stand, I hear
the trees petition so.

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By listening, I know I'm born.

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By turning our faces
toward the world,

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we live as a friend of trees.

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Listen together.

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Be ready.

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You may be born.

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I touch the bark and call,
deep as I can, part of me."

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I wanted to start by
just reading a poem--

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this had, had a title
"Always," but I just

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wanted to start
telling something,

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"inside the trees,
where tomorrow hides

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along with years," and so on.

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And I would like to
continue something

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like that, but with a
little bit of insulation

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between the poems.

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So I'll say a little
bit, sometimes,

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trying to hold the
program together,

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but I have figured
out, pretty well,

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where to go, at least, in
terms of what poems to read.