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No longer believing
in wind, I wrote this

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because I grew up in an area
where the wind almost never

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stopped.

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But it occurred to me
that even so, things

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managed to settle down
onto and into the earth

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even in South Central Kansas,
which is damn near Oklahoma.

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It's scary.

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The poem is called no
longer believing in wind.

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From the airborne dust,
we learn alliances.

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At the most unlikely
moments, we to settle

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among the veins of
old leaves, cozy

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into the corners
of unsung barns.

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Less solvent than snow, we fill
the hollows of our forebears

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those slow rocks of the fields.

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Our flights, our
fancies no more enduring

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than the movements
of small wings.

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Always there's the
pull of something

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deeper than our thrust,
of something loftier

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even than our wild propulsion.

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And so it is we find
ourselves reduced to birth.

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Brother to brother
descended in league

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with the center of the earth.

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[APPLAUSE]

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People out here
never get any wind,

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you don't know what it is.

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