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And I feel I'd like to
add one from somewhere

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later in the series,
and this one may do.

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This makes elusive reference
to a well-known and deservedly

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well-known poem
by Galway Kinnell,

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and I'll tell you
that so that you

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won't think it was a mistake.

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It's called "Constant Feelings."

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Some acts I could
never, not forthrightly,

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not by flanking you,
accomplish, like

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that bridge the poet
tried to put in this poem

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to be put in his pocket.

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Another became a
bearskin, already shed.

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I wanted to harp on
that bridge, of course

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to be that bluebottle,
cornflower, the three

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leaves of the sassafras.

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Naturally I hoped
the coat of my arms

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would, when I reached for
you, spin off, revealing

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the new skin of a purer animal.

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I think I shall always love you.

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When I enter your skin, I am
closer to bear, bridge, bush

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and that tree which,
granting the lovers shade,

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will be my veins round yours--

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many loves which are lives,
but do not depend on lives.

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