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And this one-- if I can find it.

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When they're numbered
it's really tough.

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For Rex Veeder.

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Number "22."

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"Restless in the
pine soft night,

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I rise in search of wood piles.

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The air is well
mooned, iced and clear.

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The axe blade, silver sharp.

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I select the stump,
crosscut, and frozen dried.

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Ungloved, I finger heft
and balance patiently.

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Now at last, it is time.

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The upright wood stays stiff
against the final moment

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as my strike calls out a
quick, curt, simple sound.

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The wood splits clean.

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I bend low over it,
the halves bloodless,

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fresh, aromatic
as matured pipes.

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And, between, a birth of air
filled with the white frost

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of my own raw breath.

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I sleep now like a child
clutching a new nickel."

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[APPLAUSE]

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