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There's no place here.

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I've got some visual aids
I'm going to use later.

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The first poem I'm going to
read is a very short poem,

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which I reminded that--

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I was reminded by Marvin
Bell's poem about the charm.

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He said, he thought
of that water

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seeping through the flower
pot as a kind of a charm

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that he could go back to.

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And so I'm going to give
you this little charm

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that I wrote when I was living
up in Ann Arbor in the snow

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and thinking back on
the spring in the South.

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It's a little
celebration, I guess,

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of those little tiny stems
that clover and violets have,

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those little clear stems.

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It's called Clover and Violets.

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Near the river, under mimosa
trees, water moves in the air,

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shapes of green and blue.

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The stems are clear
veins into the ground.

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