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So, that gesture is what
ends the book, all but one.

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That's actually the penultimate,
or the next to the last poem,

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in the book.

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It ends with a
gesture that's called

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a tornada, from the
Provencal poets who were down

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in the South of France and
then the north part of Spain,

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would like to end their
books with a tornada, which

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would be a turn at the end.

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They would take the
book by the shoulders

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and say some version
of, go, little book.

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And so, the tornada for this
book is just called, "Poem."

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"Then comes the pale figure,
animated inchling of light,

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running not swift but steady,
running in a screen of hills.

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Not hills, but
undulations, gently torn

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strips in a tissue collage.

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Ten shades of green, and
four of yellow, and sky blue,

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and aquamarine.

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Thus you entitle
your midsummer poem,

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"Pale Figure Running in
Bright-Colored Landscape.""

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