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One more flower
poem about something

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that I used to do
before I was divorced.

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Going--

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[LAUGHTER]

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I don't do that anymore.

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Evidently.

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But this is a poem about going
out and digging up flowers

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on Sunday mornings around--

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you don't see these places.

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I don't in places like New
York state or Connecticut,

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but in the South, there are
all these abandoned house

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sites, where there's sometimes
a chimney but no house

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there at all.

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But there's a little border of
daffodil flowers in the spring

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so that you know
where the house was.

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And we used to go out,
Kitsu and I and the kids,

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instead of going
to church I guess,

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and on Sunday, while
people were in church,

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and dig up the flowers.

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And you bring them home
and then you're plant them

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in the yard and they flop.

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But then the next
year they stand up,

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and that has nothing to do
with what's in this poem.

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I'm introducing this
thing all wrong,

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but it's called Digging Flowers.

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The reference in here
to Coley is my son too.

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Sunday during church,
filling upside down garbage

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can lids with clumps of
daffodils and the sod

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around them, zinc buckets,
coffee cans, clay pots,

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whatever we could find.

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Not much traffic to watch us,
stealing part of their vision

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around the curve, making the
VW bus look like a hearse,

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so stuffed with flowers.

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Coley in the mimosa and
thorns that have grown up

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finds an ivy house.

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Kitsu says this feels
like the beach, the wind,

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the way we're all
doing different things.

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The blade face of my new shovel
cuts through vines and roots,

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gets under a patch
on all four sides,

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and lifts with
whiskers hanging on.

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Last night we
talked a long while

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about divorce, who should move
where, how to write it up.

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My brain goes black sometimes
in the strong vinegar

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it makes of what I've lost
and continue to waste digging

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in the borders of a
house that isn't here,

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except for its borders.

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Driving home to transplant
them with an idea for poem.

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Black moisture in the
ground, the watery light

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inside these yellow flowers.

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