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A lot of things in my other
poems creep into this book.

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And I see them from
different perspectives.

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My grandfather had a tremendous.

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My paternal grandfather had
a tremendous influence on me.

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And I think once a
person has an influence.

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The influence never decreases.

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I'm not convinced that
it doesn't increase.

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There are dragons.

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I call this poem A Prayer
for My Grandfather.

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But I changed it to fit the
other titles in the book.

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It was called Plowing
the North Forney Ludi

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Jr. on Earth the Remnants
of his Paternal Grandfather.

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Who lived on
sourdough, and duck,

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grub worms, and watermilfoil
and the breasts of small birds.

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Who lived day in,
day out unaware

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that he could not kiss the
overgrowth in his own ear.

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Who he did both
himself and the Cyrus

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in his wife with what the milk
cows hourly walked away from.

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Who wore both lobes
to the bone listening

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for the word of the Lord.

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Who heard it?

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Old man lie down.

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Who stretched himself
out in a furrow

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pulling the dark, moist soil
over him like a comfort.

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Who without further comment
is becoming something else.

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The process, a kindness
to him that these bones,

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these bones, these dry white
bones shall never walk again.

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